Hi, There must be many others like me who carry a laptop from one site to another every week. Currently I have to work at four different sites.
I'd like my FreeBSD 8.2 laptop to automatically start stuff depending on where I boot it and also my personal login environment depends on where I am (PRINTER setting in .profile, clients to automatically start and DISPLAY setting in .xsession, key bindings in .ctwmrc etc.) Until recently I could look at the fully qualified hostname I got from DHCP as all DHCP servers gave me a usable hostname but now I also have to work at various sites where DHCP does not give me a hostname at all. Getting no hostname from DHCP confuses xdm which defaults to "1" requiring me to switch to another virtual console and manually set the hostname to "localhost" or something. The hostname="foo.bar.tld" in rc.conf is absolute, when set the hostname obtained from DHCP is ignored. How do other people solve this? I'd prefer to to be prompted during boot and during login for the site I want to configure for. Kind regards, Paul Schenkeveld _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
