From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:14:14 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:   
   > hostname(1) manpage says:   
   >   
   >        The   host   name   is   usually   set   once   at  system   
   >        startup  in /etc/init.d/hostname.sh (normally by reading the   
   >        contents  of  a  file which contains the host name, e.g.   
   >        /etc/hostname).   
   >   
   > Neither /etc/init.d/hostname.sh nor /etc/hostname exist in my 15.0   
   > system. /etc/HOSTNAME does and is being used by /etc/rc.d/rc.M.   
   >   
   > Is that caused by my installation or a faulty/outdated manpage?   
      
   At the end of the manpage you can see that it was last updated year 2008   
   and that it was written by some upstream providers, this manpage is not   
   specifically written for Slackware or any other distribution. That is   
   probably why they did choose a wording like "usually set once at system   
   startup".   
      
   As long as I can remember (I started with Slackware 3.0 1995) Slackware   
   has had the file /etc/HOSTNAME and that file has been used when going   
   multiuser in the startup script /etc/rc.d/rc.M (that call is made from   
   rc.M in both stable 15.0 and older versions including 9.1 from 2003 and   
   probably even older versions of Slackware than that.   
      
   One of my main reasons to stick with Slackware is that I really like its   
   system of startup scripts which kind of reminds me of the SunOS 4 BSD   
   style startup scripts. Today, when many systems switch to systemd, I   
   prefer the Slackware startup scripts even more. However, I do not expect   
   upstream providers to specifically adapt their man pages for Slackwares   
   rather unique startup system and I don't expect any Slackware maintainer   
   to patch the man pages to better reflect exactly how the startup files of   
   Slackware are written.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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