On Tue, 14.06.11 07:14, Steve Clark (sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > >>>On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > >>>>>We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the > >>>>>most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a > >>>>separate > >>>>>binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname > >>>>is > >>>>>always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and > >>>>other > >>>>>stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always > >>>>set > >>>>>up if you run in userspace, > >>>>You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname > >>>>admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname > >>>>may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel. > >>>>Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe. > >>>> > >>>>Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to? > >>>Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble. > >>I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook. > >Wow, that's convincing proof. > > > >Lennart > > > One question - does systemd run /etc/rc.local script? > If not where do I put my own little things I want to happen at boot up. Yes, it does run that on Fedora by default. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
