Bug#893394: debian-edu-install: FQDN wrongly ends up in /etc/hostname on tjener

Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:37:54 +0000

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Control: reassign -1 src:debian-edu-config

Hi,

On  So 18 Mär 2018 15:50:11 CET, Dominik George wrote:

> Source: debian-edu-install
> Version: 1.916
> Severity: normal
> When installing a tjener, the name tjener.intern ends up in the file
> /etc/hostname. However, on Debian systems, only the short hostname must
> be in /etc/hostname, the FQDN is always determined by resolving the
> short name to an IP address and reverse-resolving that back into an
> FQDN.
>

I agree with the above approach (although I use FQDN quite regularly  
in /etc/hostname myself). Let's stick to the documentation (the man  
page hasn't changed since Nik quoted it for this bug report).

Should be resolved via  
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-edu/debian-edu-config/-/merge_requests/51

Mike




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