Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-04 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:19:33AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 161004 Todd Goodman wrote: > > * Philip Webb [161003 20:04]: > >> there is also /etc/conf.d/hostname , > >> wh belongs to Openrc & contains 'hostname="localhost"'. > > recently a change -- to OpenRC, I believe -- requires the

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-04 Thread Philip Webb
161004 Todd Goodman wrote: > * Philip Webb [161003 20:04]: >> there is also /etc/conf.d/hostname , >> wh belongs to Openrc & contains 'hostname="localhost"'. > recently a change -- to OpenRC, I believe -- requires the line > in /etc/conf.d/hostname to have the environment variable capi

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-04 Thread Todd Goodman
* Philip Webb [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

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-03 Thread Philip Webb
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-too

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
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) >> >> Pr

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem

2016-10-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 Oct 2016 13:47:10 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 $HO

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem

2016-10-02 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
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

[gentoo-user] hostname problem

2016-10-02 Thread Philip Webb
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