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From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] hostname problem
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 07:41:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161002114148.GA1808@ca.inter.net> (raw)

I did a big system update yesterday ( 52 pkgs ), incl Net-tools Dhcpcd ,
& on restarting today found that hostname is not being set :

  root:505 etc> echo $HOSTNAME
  (none)

Previously it was 'localhost'.

The problem seems to be in  /etc/init.d/hostname ,
as the init process reports :

  Setting hostname to localhost ...
  /etc/init.d/hostname: line 24: hostname command not found
  *Failed to set the hostname [!!]

I've updated Openrc to the latest testing 0.22.1 , but no change.
I've also tried permutations of changes to  /etc/init.d/hostname .

Can anyone offer advice ?

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-02 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-02 11:41 Philip Webb [this message]
2016-10-02 11:47 ` [gentoo-user] hostname problem Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2016-10-02 11:56   ` Mick
2016-10-02 12:06   ` [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved Philip Webb
2016-10-04  0:04     ` Philip Webb
2016-10-04  4:01       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-10-04 15:23         ` Philip Webb
2016-10-04 12:27       ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
2016-10-04 15:19         ` Philip Webb
2016-10-04 15:42           ` William Hubbs

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