hostname: echo to kernel directly2011.06.4

This allows us to ignore the hostname utility, whose home is currently in flux.

Suggested-by: Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
index 12ffa72..fbdfbb3 100755
--- a/rc.sysinit
+++ b/rc.sysinit
@@ -327,7 +327,9 @@ stat_busy "Removing Leftover Files"
 stat_done
 
 if [[ $HOSTNAME ]]; then
-	status "Setting Hostname: $HOSTNAME" /bin/hostname "$HOSTNAME"
+	stat_busy "Setting Hostname: $HOSTNAME"
+		echo $HOSTNAME > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
+	stat_done
 fi
 
 stat_busy "Setting Locale: ${LOCALE:=en_US}"