[systemd-devel] How do you set the machine's domain name with systemd?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 13.02.2013 20:12, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Wed, 13.02.13 10:23, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> Am 13.02.2013 03:50, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
>>> On Wed, 13.02.13 05:42, Adam Nielsen (a.nielsen at shikadi.net) wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Use hostnamectl, assuming your systemd version is new enough:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hostnamectl.html
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to work:
>>>>
>>>> $ hostnamectl set-hostname korath.my.domain.com
>>>
>>> So, we currently clean up names here a bit too drastically
>>
>> you are making a big mistake here
>> if you think the input is wrong stop with a error message
>> but do NOT write different things as the users input in config files
>>
>> this is a very bad style which became visible with this bug
> 
> Well, it's not as simple as it might appear. "hostnamectl set-hostname"
> actually sets the pretty hostname (and should do that unaltered), then
> strips all the weird chars and sets the result as the unix hostname. You
> should always have the pretty hostname in place.
> 
> The idea is that "Lennart's PC" as pretty hostname becomes "lennarts-pc"
> as Unix hostname

and this idea is wrong
there is no need for a "pretty hostname"

* a hostname is a hostname with it's rules
* a pretty name is a pretty name with no technical relation


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