Bug 77209 – Domainname should also be set in nisdomainname

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Aquila 2005-01-09 02:56:51 UTC]

When users don't set their domainname in /etc/nisdomainname the login prompt is broken as are some other domain name dependent features.
I've tested it on 2 freshly installed bugs, symlinking nisdomainname to dnsdomainname fixed the problem.
This doesn't seem a bug according to bug #23441, so it should be changed in the handbook part 1 chapter 8.
This bug seems to give problems when installing qmail according to the docs as qmail relies on a properly set hostname and domain.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install a fresh system
2. follow handbook: most users don't have NIS so don't set nisdomainname
3. 

Actual Results:  
# domainname
none

login gives ugly hostname.(none)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-01-09 12:10:10 UTC]

setup your dns and/or /etc/hosts file

nisdomainname should never be required

[Comment 2 Aquila 2005-01-09 12:35:23 UTC]

Could you please reopen? I tested this on two different new boxes and it didn't work. I did do everything mentioned in the docs, my hosts etc is fine.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-01-09 12:41:12 UTC]

search bugzilla and/or forums ... this has been covered many times ...

nisdomainname is not a solution by any means

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2005-01-10 00:56:28 UTC]

I have to agree with SpankY, nisdomainname really should not be set. Make sure your /etc/issue is recent and uses "\O" instead of "\o" (DNS domainname instead of NIS domainname).

[Comment 5 Aquila 2005-01-10 05:18:39 UTC]

I did some testing and discovered that domainname only returns the nis domainname... Not really intuitive but that's not related to this bug.

I'm sorry to have bothered you with this, my apologies to you SpanKY for asking for reopening.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-01-10 10:58:01 UTC]

np, the dns/nis separation isnt exactly all that clear with the core utilties from glibc/util-linux/etc...