commit:     4018dfc8de4818101c336ff8bcf0f4762b318c6a
Author:     William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs <AT> gmail <DOT> com>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 24 18:43:11 2016 +0000
Commit:     William Hubbs <williamh <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Wed Aug 24 18:43:11 2016 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/openrc.git/commit/?id=4018dfc8

init.d/hostname: do not use localhost as a default hostname

This allows the operating system default hostname to be used if no
hostname is configured.

 init.d/hostname.in | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/init.d/hostname.in b/init.d/hostname.in
index 74866b4..253d338 100644
--- a/init.d/hostname.in
+++ b/init.d/hostname.in
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ start()
        else
                # HOSTNAME variable used to be defined in caps in 
conf.d/hostname.
                # It is also a magic variable in bash.
-               h=${hostname-${HOSTNAME-localhost}} # checkbashisms: false 
positive
+               h=${hostname-${HOSTNAME}} # checkbashisms: false positive
+       fi
+       if [ -z "$h" ]; then
+               einfo "Using default system hostname"
+               return 0
        fi
        ebegin "Setting hostname to $h $source"
        hostname "$h"

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