[rock-user] /bin/hostname vs /usr/bin/hostname

Bernd Petrovitsch <[email protected]> Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:06:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.user
Organization http://www.firmix.at/
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sorry, we had this months (or years?) ago but:
Can we please kill /usr/bin/hostname seriously?!
`stone` relies on the /bin/hostname behaviour AFAICS.
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1338#mine -l | grep bin/hostname
net-tools: bin/hostname
coreutils: usr/bin/hostname
1339#l /bin/hostname /usr/bin/hostname
  12 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root   root    8380 Jan 22  2005 /bin/hostname*
  12 -rwxr-xr-x    1 root   root   10052 Jan 22  2005 /usr/bin/hostname*
1340#/bin/hostname -d
at.home
1341#/usr/bin/hostname -d
1342#hostname
-d
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	Bernd
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