161002 Philip Webb wrote:
> 161002 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
>> 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 :
>> 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.
> Yes, that was it (red face). Thanks for the prompt reply.
Wanting to make a note for the future in case this happens again,
I have written :
Hostname set by /etc/init.d/hostname :
the binary /bin/hostname is provided by Net-tools + USE="hostname" ;
hostname needs to be set to localhost to make apps work properly :
this is done via /etc/hosts ,
wh belongs to Baselayout & shd contain '127.0.0.1 localhost' ;
there is also /etc/conf.d/hostname ,
wh belongs to Openrc & contains 'hostname="localhost"'.
However, I'm now wondering whether/why the system needs both
/etc/hosts + /etc/conf.d/hostname , which seem to do the same thing.
Can anyone explain ?
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