Thread: uname -n, fqdn
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Old 01-16-2008, 11:34 AM
Greg Andrews
 
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Default Re: uname -n, fqdn

heylow <vnr1995@gmail.com> writes:
>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
>help
>


Is that all you did, edit the file? You didn't reboot or update the kernel
with uname -S?

-Greg
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