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| author | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> | 2012-03-05 10:35:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> | 2012-03-05 10:35:00 +0000 |
| commit | 8a1c7bcc1b3fc9bf79105751d207a8f5cd311dfc (patch) | |
| tree | 003e02fdfbc506308ce5fe1cfa8130c94495018f | |
| parent | d705c979f018e29f2ecba822ca229827efb9e95c (diff) | |
| download | dhcpcd-8a1c7bcc1b3fc9bf79105751d207a8f5cd311dfc.tar.xz | |
Set hostname via /proc if file is available
On Linux, the hostname can be set via this file if available, precluding
the need for a `hostname` binary.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname b/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname index 65d1a13b..f2b35b46 100644 --- a/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname +++ b/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname @@ -21,7 +21,11 @@ need_hostname() try_hostname() { if valid_domainname "$1"; then - hostname "$1" + if [ -w /proc/sys/kernel/hostname ]; then + echo "$1" >/proc/sys/kernel/hostname + else + hostname "$1" + fi else syslog err "Invalid hostname: $1" fi |