[3191] in testers
Re: nitpick on hostname
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 4 13:03:09 1997
To: Matt Braun <mhbraun@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>, Aurora Anne <aurora@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:01:18 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 13:03:02 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> is this a release big or a desired change? all upper case hostnames
> will cause problems with some of the things people do with srvtabs.
What things?
Anyway, it's a desired change; the hostname is merely propagated from
rc.conf to /etc/nodename, /etc/hosts, etc. People notice when they
have uppercase hostnames in rc.conf but had lowercase hostnames
elsewhere.
