From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jan 19 3:40:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D43737B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0JBe6T10870; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:40:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101191140.f0JBe6T10870@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: bin/24444: syslogd(8) does not update hostname Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/24444; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/24444: syslogd(8) does not update hostname Date: 19 Jan 2001 12:32:53 +0100 cjclark@reflexcom.com writes: > I propose that syslogd(8) should reload the hostname with a > SIGHUP. I cannot think of any reason that one should not update the > hostname, but as I pointed out, there are reasons why one would want > that behavior. It should also log a message if the hostname changes. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message