From ce4c03fad012bdf4531c2d3ca1dd00e42ef89578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:33:07 +0100 Subject: remove old README --- README | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 205118d..0000000 --- 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 - -$Id$ -- cgit