From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master f9acac7: system-name's returned value can vary Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:48:28 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54A22E9C.2000906@cs.ucla.edu> References: <20141229203904.22856.88872@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000000040407010606090005" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419914942 16681 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2014 04:49:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:49:02 +0000 (UTC) To: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 30 05:48:52 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5ojj-0001Sg-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 05:48:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5ojj-00038B-1r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5ojW-00037O-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:48:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5ojT-0006RI-A6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:37023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5ojT-0006RC-1v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDC3A6001E; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:48:32 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iwIjvqK4jHek; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:48:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CF3D139E8017; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:48:28 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:180878 Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000000040407010606090005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stefan Monnier wrote: > IIUC this also resolves the long standing etc/PROBLEMS: Right you are, and thanks for mentioning it. Plus, we shouldn't need to mention /etc/hosts or NIS. I installed the attached. --------------000000040407010606090005 Content-Type: text/x-diff; name="0001-PROBLEMS-Omit-obsolete-mention-of-FQDNs.patch" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="0001-PROBLEMS-Omit-obsolete-mention-of-FQDNs.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >From 8712cfecca8d56f71bfc5f4b003dba849fcd1af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:42:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] * PROBLEMS: Omit obsolete mention of FQDNs. --- etc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ etc/PROBLEMS | 15 ++------------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index ee0958f..3c48c51 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2014-12-30 Paul Eggert + + * PROBLEMS: Omit obsolete mention of FQDNs. + 2014-12-27 =C3=81lvar Ibeas (tiny change) =20 * tutorials/TUTORIAL.es: Improve style consistency. Spelling fixes. diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 67a26b9..e1463f1 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -364,8 +364,8 @@ For example, (system-name) returns some variation on "localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting. =20 You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, -(i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts, -/etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying thi= s. +(i.e., a name with at least one "."), either in /etc/hostname +or wherever your system calls for specifying this. =20 If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable mail-host-address to the value you want. @@ -457,17 +457,6 @@ problem by adding this to your .cshrc file: endif endif =20 -*** Emacs startup on GNU/Linux systems (and possibly other systems) is s= low. - -This can happen if the system is misconfigured and Emacs can't get the -full qualified domain name, FQDN. You should have your FQDN in the -/etc/hosts file, something like this: - -127.0.0.1 localhost -129.187.137.82 nuc04.t30.physik.tu-muenchen.de nuc04 - -The way to set this up may vary on non-GNU systems. - *** Attempting to visit remote files via ange-ftp fails. =20 If the error message is "ange-ftp-file-modtime: Specified time is not --=20 2.1.0 --------------000000040407010606090005--