From muir@idiom.com Thu Feb 16 03:17:17 1995 Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [140.174.82.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA19697 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 03:17:12 -0800 Received: (from muir@localhost) by idiom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id DAA22473; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 03:17:05 -0800 Message-Id: <199502161117.DAA22473@idiom.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 03:17:05 -0800 From: David Muir Sharnoff Reply-To: muir@idiom.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: default domain shouldn't be hostname X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 223 >Category: misc >Synopsis: default domain shouldn't be hostname >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 16 03:20:02 1995 >Closed-Date: Sat Sep 23 10:19:01 PDT 1995 >Last-Modified: Sat Sep 23 10:20:37 PDT 1995 >Originator: David Muir Sharnoff >Release: FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: When using the install program, when you are at the "What is the domain name of this host" question, the default that it provides is the full hostname from the previous question. It should chop off the first segment to leave what has a better chance of being the domain name. Or would it have a better chance? There's a lot of single-computer sites out there now. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: gpalmer State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 23 10:19:01 PDT 1995 State-Changed-Why: This was caused by a bug when crunching sed to go on the boot floppy. Cured with the 2.0.5 version of sysinstall. Still not sure why sed doesn't like being crunched tho. >Unformatted: