On 08/22/2016 06:09 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > Someone here at the office was wanting a cross-platform way to find out > the hostname of the host the container is running on inside the > container. We made another suggestion for that, so forget about the > docker angle on this for now. > > But, /etc/hostname is a multi-distro standard for where the hostname is > located, so I would like to make openrc prefer it over the setting in > /etc/conf.d/hostname if it exists.A >
What for? As far as I know, /etc/hostname is an arbitrary path that has been used to configure the hostname in the past. Whatever, you gotta configure it somewhere. But in OpenRC, there's a standard place for init script configuration and we already use it. Switching just one service to prefer another path is going to confuse everyone: "I changed my hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname and NOTHING HAPPENED!?!?" Populating /etc/hostname will only encourage people to read it from there rather than the proper way.
