[GTALUG] overengineering: hostnamectl

ac ac at main.me
Mon Aug 29 09:19:28 EDT 2016


On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:33:29 -0500
o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:41 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
> > How do you set the hostname of a Linux machine?  It used to be you
> > just put it in the file /etc/hostname.
> >snip
> > To be honest, what bothers me is that there seem to be several
> > different models of what a hostname is.  It would be nice if we
> > actually could delete some of these interfaces, and merge some
> > others, leaving behind only one model.  Maybe the SystemD model is
> > that one.
> Hmmmmmm - - - as it was explained to me systemd wants to be ALL things
> to all systems, covering every background detail - - - - that sounds
> like a recipe for disaster to me!!!

my take is that the subject line says exactly what the problem is,
that and that there is a "highlander" thing ongoing...

2c

Andre


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