[sles-beta] SLES12B9 - hostname being reset to "linux" on zypper dup

[Darren Thompson]

Olaf

i suspect its more of a "rpm overwrites a configuration file it shouldn't"
issue.

I believe they were using systemd hostname config from the beginning.

Darren


On 23 June 2014 23:27, Olaf Hering <ohering at suse.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, Darren Thompson wrote:
>
> > Caused a little fun and games with my SLES12 cluster before I realised
> that
> > everything was named "linux" ;-)
>
> Looks like systemd is not well integrated into SUSE Linux. Since many
> years /etc/HOSTNAME was the config file for the hostname. With Beta9
> that file became /etc/hostname, owned by systemd. Tthe old file was
> changed to a symlink. It should have been the other way around,
> /etc/hostname should be a symlink to /etc/HOSTNAME.
> I hope that change was not a mindless "do what upstream does" change...
> At least its not mentioned in the release-notes.
>
> Olaf
>



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