From: Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: /etc/hostname on gentoo
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 08:02:04 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnnrql3t.5s6.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160823195746.GA21460@whubbs1.gaikai.biz
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> I am planning to change the logic in /etc/init.d/hostname so that if
> /etc/hostname exists, the first word out of that file will be used as
> the hostname rather than any setting in /etc/conf.d/hostname.
You could also make the content of the default /etc/conf.d/hostname:
hostname=`cat /etc/hostname`
or
read hostname </etc/hostname
or something similar. This way, the change becomes transparent to the user
and he can easily change it if he prefers the old logic for some reason.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-24 8:02 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
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 [this message]
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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