Bug 14736
| Summary: | ifup-post does not set hostname for PCMIA interfaces | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dirk Kutscher <dku> |
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-07-27 16:42:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This is intentional; for PCMCIA adapters and other things that could be changed often on the computer, we don't want to set a hostname; changing the hostname at random points during runtime can cause application failures (X being the notable example.) |
Line 25 of ifup-post (initscripts-5.00-1) contains a check that prevents the script from setting the hostname for interfaces that have not been activated at boot time ("$2" = "boot"). This is inconvenient for PCMCIA adapters where the interface is never activated at boot time.