Debian Bug report logs - #420053
hostname: Options -f and --fqdn no longer work

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ryan Mahoney <rmmahoney@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: hostname: Options -f and --fqdn no longer work

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:35:06 -0400

Package: hostname
Version: 2.93
Severity: normal


When attempting to use "hostname -f" or "hostname --fqdn" to determine the fully
qualified domain name of the system, it returns:

   hostname: Unknown host

This same syntax worked as expected in the hostname package in Debian Sarge.

This causes problems with the amavisd-new package, because it has a line in one
of its configuration files as follows:

   chomp($myhostname = `hostname --fqdn`);

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages hostname depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

hostname recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 420053@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: <marcos.marado@sonae.com>

To: <420053@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RE: hostname: Options -f and --fqdn no longer work

Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:59:44 +0000

Hi there,

> When attempting to use "hostname -f" or "hostname --fqdn" to determine the 
> fully qualified domain name of the system, it returns:
> 
>   hostname: Unknown host

The only way I can reproduce this is by having a FQDN in /etc/hostname . Can 
you please check if your /etc/hostname has your FQDN instead of just the 
hostname?

As you can see in hostname's man page, 
"/etc/hostname This file should only contain domain name and not the full 
FQDN."

Anyway, and if this is your case, I still think that this bug report shouldn't 
be closed but retitled to "hostname should check if /etc/hostname has FQDN", 
or "hostname should have better behaviour with invalid /etc/hostname", and 
the severity changed to "wishlist".

Best regards,
-- 
Marcos Marado

Message #17 received at 420053-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>

To: 420053-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#420053: fixed in hostname 2.97

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:47:12 +0000

Source: hostname
Source-Version: 2.97

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
hostname, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

hostname_2.97.dsc
  to pool/main/h/hostname/hostname_2.97.dsc
hostname_2.97.tar.gz
  to pool/main/h/hostname/hostname_2.97.tar.gz
hostname_2.97_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/h/hostname/hostname_2.97_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 420053@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> (supplier of updated hostname package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:34:13 +0200
Source: hostname
Binary: hostname
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.97
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Hostname Team <hostname-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org>
Description: 
 hostname   - utility to set/show the host name or domain name
Closes: 390527 420053 483221 501005 535467 540774 543666 543892
Changes: 
 hostname (2.97) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New maintainer, closes: #543892
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.3, no changes needed.
   * Do not print trailing blank for option "-a", closes: #390527
   * Refer to correct init file, closes: #540774
   * Applied patch by Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> to take care of an
     empty or non existant /etc/hostname, closes: #543666
   * Made package description and manpage clearer, closes: #483221
   * Added patch by Michael Stapelberg <michael+db20090501@stapelberg.de> to
     better cope with IPv6, closes: #535467
   * Added nisdomainname/ypdomainname, closes: #501005
   * Strip domain name returned by gethostname(), closes: #420053
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