From cb554f576758b915252a2a5b853aea9ac443b6dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chrissy LeMaire <potatoqualitee@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:40:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add try/catch for containers without the hostname command
 (#8710)

fixes #8701
---
 dbatools.psm1 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dbatools.psm1 b/dbatools.psm1
index e45cbc3aa7..f853fb9751 100644
--- a/dbatools.psm1
+++ b/dbatools.psm1
@@ -94,7 +94,11 @@ if (($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 6) -or ($PSVersionTable.Platform -and $
 
     # this doesn't exist by default
     # https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/1262
-    $env:COMPUTERNAME = hostname
+    try {
+        $env:COMPUTERNAME = hostname
+    } catch {
+        $env:COMPUTERNAME = "unknown"
+    }
 }
 
 Write-ImportTime -Text "Setting some OS variables"