Re: [tbox-l] bug in hostname / coreutils-5.0-2

[Brian L. <bjl...@ya...>]

--- Rainer Tammer <ta...@ta...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> hdkutz wrote:
> > The commands differ! Check the man page and info
> of /opt/freeware/bin/hostname.
> >   
> I know. This is not the problem.

Two things I do as a "best practice":
1.  Don't compile code as root, only run the "make
install" step as root.  A non-root user should not be
able to run "hostname -s" to successfully rename the
host.
2.  On AIX, when performing compiles, change your path
so that "/usr/linux/bin" is at the beginning of your
path, so that all GNU utilities find what they expect.

Brian


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