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. -- Rich
