On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk(a)redhat.com) wrote:
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.
I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook.
Wow, that's convincing proof.
Lennart
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