[Hostname-devel] Bug#555736: hostname: [man] please clarify that /etc/hostname is not written to

[jaalto]

Package: hostname
Version: 3.00
Severity: minor


This command doe snot change the hostname:

  hostename new

Please clarify in the manual page that 

1) this change is temporary
2) /etc/hostname is not writtent to
3) To really chnage the hostname, sysadm must modify /etc/hostname

Cf. Thread "Cannot change hostname permanently"
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg00096.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hostname depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

hostname recommends no packages.

hostname suggests no packages.

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