[lxc-users] Is this a bug

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 17 15:34:29 UTC 2015


Quoting Björn Mittelsdorf (bjoern.mittelsdorf at scheer-management.com):
> Hi all,
> 
> in Ubuntu trusty a clone of an Ubuntu container gets a new hostname but the line containing the hostname in /etc/hosts is not updated.
> This results in error messages when using sudo or similar stuff.
> 
> I hesitate to file this as a bug as it is very easy to fix this, but on the other hand it creates a difference between original and clone...
> Any opinions?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Björn

This is supposed to be handled by

/usr/share/lxc/config/common.conf

which has a line:

lxc.hook.clone = /usr/share/lxc/hooks/clonehostname

which does update /etc/hosts.


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