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What is the right thing to set a computer's hostname to? (/bin/hostname, /etc/hostname, sethostname(2), etc.)

I usually just use the "name" part, and it works perfectly (for me at least), but I've seen it implied in some places that I should use the entire "name.domain.tld" instead... which just doesn't feel "right" for me.

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Just the name as you already do. A hostname shouldn't contain any domainname.

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