Re: How does cfengine figure out the domainname?

[Mark . Burgess]

It tries various methods, but eventually settles on what you define
in the domain variabe. It's a bit of a chicken and egg situation
with domain names,

M

On 19 Aug, Doug J Nordwall wrote:
> I have a raft of machines that do not have dns domain names. That is to
> say, they are in a domain, but they don't return FQDNs when you type in
> hostname. They are of varying architecture (mostly sun, linux, and
> irix). FOr all of them, cfengine returns an undefined domain. I'm
> curious to know how cfengine determines domain names. Does it just take
> the last part of the FQDN? I've been reading the code, but I'll freely
> admit, I'm not a programmer, although I took many courses in college :)



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