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Re: bash hostname \h in all caps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Aug 1 21:10:11 2011
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 21:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>, "debathena@mit.edu" <debathena@mit.edu>
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The installer may canonicalize them, but it certainly doesn't uppercase
them. That's MIT DNS. And we do have some code to lowercase them; I think
this may have broken when we introduced the stage2.
(It'd be nice to get that fixed, but I dunno who to talk to about that...)
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> This is not necessarily a bug. The stock installer canonicalizes hostnames and uppercases them.
>
> Sent from my mobile device
>
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>
>> On SIPB's Natty machine (w-a-thornhump-iii), I have "\h" in
>> my bash PS1 prompt. This gets rendered in ALL-CAPS, which
>> is a change in behavior from other machines.
>>
>> --ken
>>
>> --
>> Sent from a Dell 1950 8 CPU 32 GB RAM
>
