systemd: please stop trying to take over the world :)

[Simo Sorce]

On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the
> > most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a
> separate
> > binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname
> is
> > always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and
> other
> > stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always
> set
> > up if you run in userspace,
> 
> You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname
> admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname
> may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel.
> Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe.
> 
> Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to?

Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble.
What's the problem of having a specific hostname set up at boot time ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York