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From: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 10:42:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161004154233.GA10408@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004151933.GD1699@ca.inter.net>

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On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:19:33AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 161004 Todd Goodman wrote:
> > * Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> [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.

Yes,

the lowercase hostname is correct, not upper case.

Thanks,

William

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04 15:43 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
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 [this message]

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