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
next prev parent 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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