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161002 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: |
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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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> Check if sys-apps/net-tools has the "hostname" useflag enabled |
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> it's enabled by default so you may encounter the fallout of a -* setup. |
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Yes, that was it (red face). Thanks for the prompt reply. |
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