Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown"

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:22:17 +0000 (GMT)

> Red Hat broke it up back when "domainname" (in user space) was the NIS
> domain --- resulting in a lot of confusion when people tried to set the DNS

domainname in the utent structure has is the NIS domainname

> domain name with the NIS domainname command. Presumably they'll need to
> rearrange things again to make it all fit with a kernel that "knows" about
> DNS domain names.

The kernel doesn't shouldn't and won't. Its bizarre enough that sys5 stuck
any domain info in the kernel..

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