I went ahead and grabbed the hostname tar from a Debian distribution. It
all is working.
-Rod
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On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, Kevin Lentin wrote:
> Rod Troch N2ZVV Wrote ...
> >
> >
> > After doing a 'make config' my hostname changes to "-d". Doing a
> > 'hostname lonestar' returns it to normal. I am not sure when this
> > started happening but it has been happening for a while, but I think only
> > during the 1.3 series.
> >
> > I am running a very old setup, hmm... it might still be a SLS
> > distribution or this setup might be one of the first Slackwares.
> >
> > Any ideas as to what is happening? If you do, please let me know.
>
> Get a new hostname binary. hostname -d is used in the sound config I think
> to get the domain name instead of using domainname. I presume newer
> hostname's provide the -d option and older ones don't. I had a similar
> problem but my hostname died with an error instead of setting the hostname
> to -d.
>
> Either that or go into the sound configure thingo and change the hostname
> -d to a domainname. Or replace hostname with a script that fixes it.
>
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