9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
8:58 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Anyway:
echo $HOSTNAME > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
No external tools required.
D'oh! Problem solved then. I was thinking earlier "surely this must be possible to do directly", but I rejected it. In that case, this is no longer any of my business, and we can just simple revert to putting hostname in net-tools for the time being, and possibly move it to inetutils in the future (but I won't be fighting that battle ;-) ). -t