On Sep 22, 12:18 am, g...@panix.com (Greg Andrews) wrote:
> heylow <vnr1...@gmail.com> writes:
> >On 5.8, when I run uname -n or hostname, I get non-qualified name. On
> >5.10, I get FQDN for the same. Is there any setting that can change
> >the behavior to non-qualified name?
>
> Have you compared the /etc/nodename files on 5.8 and 5.10?

They are different: on 5.10, it is fqdn; on 5.8, it is just short
name. I manually edited /etc/nodename on 5.10 to short name; it didn't
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