[GTALUG] overengineering: hostnamectl

[ac]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 10:15:11 -0400
Alvin Starr <alvin at netvel.net> wrote:
> 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?
> 
there can only be one :)