From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:39:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_kxcDL6A8_eE8K0gnrgd9SJE6ocSe0HWxWHDvKY1vgODA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57BB2439.4050408@iee.org>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:11 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:
> On 22/08/16 16:58, William Hubbs wrote:
>>
>> it looks like app-emulation/docker expects /etc/hostname to exist.
>>
>> On Gentoo, this file does not exist, so I'm wondering how we can make it
>> exist?
>>
>> I know in OpenRC I can read it and use the value there as the hostname
>> instead of /etc/conf.d/hostname if it exists,but I'm not sure whether
>> OpenRC should populate /etc/hostname if it does not exist or whether
>> something else should do that.
>>
> Sym-link it perhaps? Making another file could make synchronisation, etc
> a headache....
>
Systemd has generally been going the route of symlinking files like
these to files in /run. That might be an approach that would work for
openrc as well. It also eliminates giving write-access to /etc to
things like dhcpd.
--
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-22 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-22 15:58 [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo William Hubbs
2016-08-22 16:11 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-08-22 16:39 ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2016-08-22 17:03 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-22 17:32 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-22 17:28 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-22 17:51 ` Sven Vermeulen
2016-08-22 18:29 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 19:59 ` Marc Schiffbauer
2016-08-22 17:37 ` Matthew Thode
2016-08-22 17:51 ` Matthew Thode
2016-08-22 19:18 ` Dirkjan Ochtman
2016-08-22 19:28 ` Hans de Graaff
2016-08-22 20:01 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-22 22:09 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-23 6:39 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-23 7:01 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-23 12:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-23 10:01 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 12:26 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-23 18:45 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 19:57 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-23 20:25 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-23 21:22 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-24 6:52 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-24 6:56 ` Christian Kniep
2016-08-24 10:46 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 7:12 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-24 11:17 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 11:37 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-24 11:42 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 12:40 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 15:49 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-24 16:06 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 16:22 ` Zac Medico
2016-08-24 16:33 ` Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-24 16:42 ` Zac Medico
2016-08-24 19:23 ` Consus
2016-08-24 22:43 ` Cédric Krier
2016-08-28 6:30 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-28 6:48 ` Michał Górny
2016-08-28 7:24 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-08-28 6:57 ` M. J. Everitt
2016-08-28 8:10 ` Zac Medico
2016-08-28 12:34 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-08-28 14:16 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-28 14:21 ` Michał Górny
2016-08-28 15:29 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-08-28 15:54 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-25 4:11 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-08-25 12:50 ` Mike Gilbert
2016-08-25 13:42 ` Rich Freeman
2016-08-24 8:02 ` Martin Vaeth
2016-08-23 12:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Orlitzky
2016-08-28 18:15 ` William Hubbs
2016-08-31 21:24 ` Daniel Campbell
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