[svlug] What Linux distro is this??

[Prasanth A. Kumar]

Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net> writes:

> dfox at belvdere.vip.best.com wrote:
> > It should be pointed out that /etc/HOSTNAME shouldn't be relied
> > upon. Although slackware may put its default hostname in there,
> > it's one of the first things to be changed on post-installation.
> 
> Redhat uses /etc/HOSTNAME too.
> 
> You might think you could check package management tools for a rough
> idea, but numerous debian systems include rpm, and alien advises any
> slackware users who want to use it to install a tarball containing both
> rpm and dpkg.
> 
> There is no good method right now. I hope this will be addressed in the
> LSB. All the distributions just need to agree on a common filename.
<snip>

Actually, Redhat uses /etc/sysconfig/network for the default hostname
but writes a copy to /etc/HOSTNAME as part of the bootup rc.sysint
script.

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Prasanth Kumar
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