* Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> [161003 20:04]: > 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 ?
I can't speak to why there are multiple ways to do things (just different ways carried forward I think.) But recently a change (to OpenRC I believe) requires the line in /etc/conf.d/hostname to have the environment variable capitalized to be used. In your example it needs to contain "HOSTNAME=localhost" and not "hostname=localhost" I had one fairly recently installed server run into this problem (and not my other servers.) I run ~amd64 Todd
