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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2008-10-27 20:33:07 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2008-10-27 20:33:07 +0100 |
| commit | ce4c03fad012bdf4531c2d3ca1dd00e42ef89578 (patch) | |
| tree | fbd02262875062ff124fa688864166e1ac5f6664 | |
| parent | 601b7783296363c5e33b67cbf861eba70006d2d3 (diff) | |
remove old README
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 17 |
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diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 205118d4ec..0000000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -nss-myhostname is a GNU libc NSS module that statically translates the -local host name to the IP address 127.0.0.2 (which is on the loopback -device) and vice versa. - -This is useful to make sure that the local host name is always -resolvable. Some programs (such as sudo) require this functionality. - -Especially on embedded systems it may not be desirable to modify -/etc/hosts to match the current host name. - -It is a good idea to put this module as last resort in -/etc/nsswitch.conf, to make sure that other name service take -precedence. - --- Lennart Poettering, lennart [at] poettering [dot] de - -$Id$ |