From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FEDC138330 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE762E0B95; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80CF3E0AE6 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 15:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3E7D2EA0C2 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SPMxxeyPg-Lk for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-58-198-15.dyn.295.ca [45.58.198.15]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 435DF2EA090 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:19:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 04 Oct 2016 11:19:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 11:19:33 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved Message-ID: <20161004151933.GD1699@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20161002114148.GA1808@ca.inter.net> <20161002114710.kvwtki4ckeyh4x6t@Securitron.fritz.box> <20161002120651.GA1706@ca.inter.net> <20161004000402.GG1705@ca.inter.net> <20161004122710.GH7108@ns1.bonedaddy.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20161004122710.GH7108@ns1.bonedaddy.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) X-Archives-Salt: 2df1545f-9aae-42ef-aa67-cf21499dbf10 X-Archives-Hash: f66686f686d3707414c2bf3da3fd0494 161004 Todd Goodman wrote: > * Philip Webb [161003 20:04]: >> there is also /etc/conf.d/hostname , >> wh belongs to Openrc & contains 'hostname="localhost"'. > recently a change -- to OpenRC, I believe -- requires the line > in /etc/conf.d/hostname to have the environment variable capitalized. > In your example it needs "HOSTNAME=localhost" and not "hostname=localhost". > I had one fairly recently installed server run into this problem > I run ~amd64 Well here, I updated to the latest testing Openrc-0.22.1 on Sunday & it recreated that file with 'hostname' lowercase (smile) (as you will have noticed, your quotes above are a typo). Everything is now working as it should. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca