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On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> I did a big system update yesterday ( 52 pkgs ), incl Net-tools Dhcpcd , |
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> & on restarting today found that hostname is not being set : |
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> root:505 etc> echo $HOSTNAME |
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> (none) |
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> Previously it was 'localhost'. |
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> The problem seems to be in /etc/init.d/hostname , |
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> as the init process reports : |
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> Setting hostname to localhost ... |
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> /etc/init.d/hostname: line 24: hostname command not found |
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> *Failed to set the hostname [!!] |
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> I've updated Openrc to the latest testing 0.22.1 , but no change. |
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> I've also tried permutations of changes to /etc/init.d/hostname . |
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> Can anyone offer advice ? |
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Check if sys-apps/net-tools has the "hostname" useflag enabled (it's enabled by |
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default so you may encounter the fallout of a -* setup...) |
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WKR |
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Hinnerk |
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