Behavioral change in hostname

[Robert Moskowitz]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:31:09 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>   
>> What can be done to get 'hostname' to always figure out to return the 
>> FQDN if one exists?
>>     
>
> I always thought it returned whatever was set as HOSTNAME=
> in the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
Well I did some more testing.

with the -f, it is reading /etc/hosts. Without it, you are correct, so 
we are simply dropping the -f parameter.

Still this seems to be a installation change somewhere along the FC 
evolution....