From 353bb9bc9a0ab3c6650d72d2ceb14c990762a2a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Hubbs <w.d.hubbs@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:22:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] init.d/hostname: add support for /etc/hostname

---
 init.d/hostname.in | 16 +++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init.d/hostname.in b/init.d/hostname.in
index 21ed7019..74866b4c 100644
--- a/init.d/hostname.in
+++ b/init.d/hostname.in
@@ -17,10 +17,16 @@ depend() {
 
 start()
 {
-	# HOSTNAME variable used to be defined in caps in conf.d/hostname.
-	# It is also a magic variable in bash.
-	hostname=${hostname-${HOSTNAME-localhost}} # checkbashisms: false positive
-	ebegin "Setting hostname to $hostname"
-	hostname "$hostname"
+	local h source x
+	if [ -s @SYSCONFDIR@/hostname ] && [ -r @SYSCONFDIR@/hostname ]; then
+	read h x <@SYSCONFDIR@/hostname
+	source=" from @SYSCONFDIR@/hostname"
+	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
+	fi
+	ebegin "Setting hostname to $h $source"
+	hostname "$h"
 	eend $? "Failed to set the hostname"
 }