On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:39:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:11 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> wrote: > > On 22/08/16 16:58, William Hubbs wrote: > >> > >> it looks like app-emulation/docker expects /etc/hostname to exist. > >> > >> On Gentoo, this file does not exist, so I'm wondering how we can make it > >> exist? > >> > >> I know in OpenRC I can read it and use the value there as the hostname > >> instead of /etc/conf.d/hostname if it exists,but I'm not sure whether > >> OpenRC should populate /etc/hostname if it does not exist or whether > >> something else should do that. > >> > > Sym-link it perhaps? Making another file could make synchronisation, etc > > a headache.... > > > > Systemd has generally been going the route of symlinking files like > these to files in /run. That might be an approach that would work for > openrc as well. It also eliminates giving write-access to /etc to > things like dhcpd.
I'm not sure about putting this in /run for a couple of reasons: The contents of this file is a setting, like /etc/conf.d/hostname, which will be set by the user. The other reason is, I don't know enough about containers to know if they will have a separate /run from the host. William
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