Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2013-09-11)

On Wed, 11.09.13 23:30, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johannbg(a)gmail.com) wrote: The command line of agetty we use on Fedora does not use --long-hostname currently. I don't grok this? Are you suggesting it should pass that switch? If so, I'd prefer if this would become the agetty upstream default. Have you tried asking Karel for that? Why did you involve FESCO? How is that fqdn determined? Simply the result of gethostname()? Or is this the result of "hostname --fqdn"? (the former just reads a string from the kernel, which is fine; the latter involves DNS resolving that string, and then reverse resolving it again, which is nothing we should do when showing a login prompt.) This change is simply about whether to truncate at the first dot or not. This has little to do with qualifying a hostname to become the fqdn... So, let me ask explicitly: Are you suggesting that a configured short kernel hostname should be qualified to an fqdn on display? (which is what your choice of words "fqdn" was suggesting). Or are you simply suggesting that a possibly configured long kernel hostname should not be truncated on display to become a short name? If it's the latter I'd appreciate to make this clear in your FESCO ticket. Recommended read is the bit about "The FQDN" in hostname(1), to grok what it means to qualify a short hostname to an fqdn. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.