Bug 2398
| Summary: | rc.sysinit doesn't set domain unless NIS is present | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Steingold, Sam <sds> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 1999-05-04 19:48:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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why would you want to set the NIS domain name if you aren't using NIS? allright, make it dnsdomainname, not domainname. You can't set the dnsdomainname. (see the man page...) |
DOMAINNAME set in /etc/sysconfig/network is ignored in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. The following patch fixes the problem: *** /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.old Wed Apr 28 13:31:31 1999 --- /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit Wed Apr 28 13:32:46 1999 *************** *** 61,67 **** if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then action "Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN" domainname $NISDOMAIN else ! domainname "" fi if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then --- 61,67 ---- if [ -n "$NISDOMAIN" ]; then action "Setting NIS domain name $NISDOMAIN" domainname $NISDOMAIN else ! action "Setting domain name $DOMAINNAME" domainname $DOMAINNAME fi if [ -f /fsckoptions ]; then