[GTALUG] overengineering: hostnamectl

[Alvin Starr]

On 08/29/2016 09:19 AM, ac via talk wrote:
> 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...
>

When you say "highlander" do you mean the car, the movie, the TV show, 
or the games?


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