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 : >> >> root:505 etc> echo $HOSTNAME >> (none) >> >> Previously it was 'localhost'. >> The problem seems to be in /etc/init.d/hostname , >> as the init process reports : >> >> Setting hostname to localhost ... >> /etc/init.d/hostname: line 24: hostname command not found >> *Failed to set the hostname [!!] >> > 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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
