Re: Problem with Hostname

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:04:49AM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    This command that accepts the -f option is *not* the GNU hostname
>    command.
> 
> There is a small confusion, there are two versions of GNU hostname.
> One that supports -f (GNU Inetutils hostname), and one that doesn't
> (GNU Coreutils hostname).  The one in coreutils is not installed by
> default.  Maybe we should remove the one in coreutils?

Having two different GNU hostname programs is a really bad idea. If the
coreutils one is not installed by default and provides just a very basic
implementation, it should be removed IMHO.

Thanks,
Erik