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From: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen <h.v.bruinehsen@fu-berlin.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 13:47:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161002114710.kvwtki4ckeyh4x6t@Securitron.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161002114148.GA1808@ca.inter.net>

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 07:41:48AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 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 ?

Check if sys-apps/net-tools has the "hostname" useflag enabled (it's enabled by
default so you may encounter the fallout of a -* setup...)

WKR
Hinnerk


  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-02 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-02 11:41 [gentoo-user] hostname problem Philip Webb
2016-10-02 11:47 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen [this message]
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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