Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. > > ... /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. ...
See the man page dhclient-script(8). I've had success with a script /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks like this: # Set the hostname if [ x$reason != xBOUND ] && [ x$reason != REBIND ]; then exit; fi echo dhclient-exit-hooks: IP address is $new_ip_address hostname=$( host $new_ip_address | sed -ne 's/Name: //p' ) hostname $hostname echo dhclient-exit-hooks: hostname is $( hostname ) You could update /etc/hostname too if you like. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
