Please, What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname after booting using BOOTP/DHCP.
I have a couple of labs full of machines, all more or less identical. They are all dual-booted Linux <spit> and XP </spit>. They are maintained by dumping OS images onto them using a proprietary product. (This mechanism is chosen and used by others.) This is working well, except that /etc/hostname is identical on all the machines. The IP addresses are correctly discovered and set. I know that I could write a script that gets the host IP address, and then gets the name associated with that IP, and then updates the /etc/hostname; and that I could run this script "somewhere" in the bootup process, or even during the login process. I am sure that there is a simpler, cleaner way of doing this, that will not get broken during updates. Suggestions please. I have been looking for docs on the bootp/dhcp process, but failed to find what I need. Dave -- Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059 School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering The University of Leeds. Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
