From 154a99529c3d72a808866e00ee656f0ddc3c1080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Tanner <tanner.jc@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:21:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #5353 create etc/hostname file in debian if it does not
exist
---
system/hostname | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/system/hostname b/system/hostname
index 9aa7c206a4b..8a9401d2436 100644
--- a/system/hostname
+++ b/system/hostname
@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ class DebianStrategy(GenericStrategy):
HOSTNAME_FILE = '/etc/hostname'
def get_permanent_hostname(self):
+ if not os.path.isfile(self.HOSTNAME_FILE):
+ try:
+ open(self.HOSTNAME_FILE, "a").write("")
+ except IOError, err:
+ self.module.fail_json(msg="failed to write file: %s" %
+ str(err))
try:
f = open(self.HOSTNAME_FILE)
try: