From: Fourhundred Thecat <400thecat@gmx.ch>
To: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: hostname completion for ssh / scp
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 21:50:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <581E462F.6060402@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161105203131.GA11681@fujitsu.shahaf.local2>
> On 2016-11-05 21:31, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Fourhundred Thecat wrote on Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 19:54:29 +0100:
>> Not true. IP address is not mandatory in /etc/hosts. You can leave it
>> out, and only have hostnames.
>
> The IP address is mandatory on both Linux and FreeBSD, according to
> their respective hosts(5) man pages.
>
> Does hosts(5) on your system make the IP address optional? Or are you
> simply saying that you put in /etc/hosts a line with no IP address, and
> bash's hostname completion used hostnames from that line?
no, man hosts on my system (Debian) does not explicitly say that IP is
optional. You are right. I am saying that if you omit the IP address,
everything works fine, and all applications understand that, and
bash-completion completes these hostnames for all networking applications.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-05 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-03 19:11 Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 4:42 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05 8:55 ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 17:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05 18:54 ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 20:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-05 20:54 ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-05 22:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2016-11-06 8:49 ` Fourhundred Thecat
2016-11-06 17:41 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <581E2AE5.4040006__46101.1380576112$1478372966$gmane$org@gmx.ch>
2016-11-05 20:31 ` Daniel Shahaf
2016-11-05 20:50 ` Fourhundred Thecat [this message]
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