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Re: a little jessie whinage

From Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: a little jessie whinage
Date 2015-10-11 21:30 +0200
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On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> Your expectations are too high. 

Don't agree. This is software is intended to run server(s) on the Internet (for me) and other important networks (for enterprise admins). For those applications, it needs to work for at least the trivial software.

'hostname -f' isn't rocket science -- it's just a small lookup. I suspect it goes to ifconfig for the IP then in hosts for the FQDN that matches the IP, or, apparently, resolv.conf and hostname. No major problem either way. It could easily be done with a short shell script (maybe it is, I haven't looked).

> "Oops" conveys nothing. Which is probably why you didn't expand on it
> when replying to David Wright.

That's exactly what I was trying to say. A next to meaningless error message. "Couldn't find in /etc/hosts, any IP given by ifconfig: <IP(s)>.", might be a little more useful.

-- 
Glenn English

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a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 05:00 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-11 07:30 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 09:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-11 20:40 +0200
        Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 21:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2015-10-11 23:00 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 23:10 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-10-11 23:20 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 00:20 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-11 12:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-10-11 13:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2015-10-11 17:10 +0200
  Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 22:20 +0200
    Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-11 22:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 23:30 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 00:00 +0200
      Re: a little jessie whinage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-12 06:50 +0200
        Re: a little jessie whinage Glenn English <ghe@slsware.net> - 2015-10-12 09:40 +0200
          Re: a little jessie whinage Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-10-13 04:00 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:40 +0200
            Re: a little jessie whinage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-10-13 15:10 +0200

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