"hostname" command not found

[langfingaz]

Hey, I have an Odroid XU-4 runnig archlinux ARM.

When I run hostname, I get

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ hostname
-bash: hostname: command not found
')

pacman -F shows that hostname is e.g. provided by gettext, which I have installed. I did even reinstall it.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ pacman -F hostname
core/gettext 0.21.1-2 (base-devel) [installed: 0.21.1-5]
usr/lib/gettext/hostname
')

When I execute hostname with the full path (/usr/lib/gettext/hostname), it works.

I didn't change much in my setup except the basics. So no path modifications. Here is my current path variable:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
$ echo "$PATH"
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl
')

Do you have any ideas what might be wrong with my setup and how I could fix it? Thanks!

[karog]

I have an XU4 running mainline kernel. I have core/gettext installed but I also have core/inetutils installed which has hostname at /usr/bin/hostname which would be found in your default path. I expect inetutils comes in the initial install but I can't say for certain I never manually installed it. I have had the XU4 for several years. I have 4 other arch installs (N2+, pogoplug e02, 2 RPi zero w) and they all have inetutils.

[langfingaz]

Thanks for the quick reply and the hint with inetutils.

On my other (older) Arch Linux machines, there is inetutils installed. So that's why I was used to having the "hostname" command available. But one fresh x86 Arch installation is also missing the hostname command (in its path) as it does also not have inetutils installed.

So I'll either just add inetutils to my "base" packages list for new installations or use something like "hostnamectl hostname" in bash scripts - the latter is part of systemd and therefore available.