9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
8:55 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 09.06.2011 22:15, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
The question remains: what to do with initscripts. It just needs to set the hostname, seems silly to pull in net-tools or inetutils just for this...
Why would it be silly? Anyway:
echo $HOSTNAME > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
No external tools required.
Thanks, I was about to add that. as far as I know that is all setting the hostname does. Also, it would be nice if the hostname command maintained backwards compatibility, a number of my scripts just broke because hostname no longer has the -f option. -Thomas S Hatch