On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 21:33:29 -0500 o1bigtenor via talk <talk@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
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:41 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: 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