On 26 April 2014 07:45, Patrik Lundin <patrik.lundin....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:21:28AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote: >> >> Assuming you mean dhclient.conf and not dhcpd.conf, the hostname of >> the system is not currently set by dhclient even if it is supplied. >> The install process does cause dhclient to send the configured >> hostname to the dhcpd server for it's own record keeping purposes. >> > > I was thinking about the 'option host-name "foo";' at the end of > autoinstall(8). From what I can tell this is picked up by > get_responsefile() in /usr/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub like so: > > 2118 # Prime hostname with host-name option > 2119 hostname "$(sed -E '/^ *option host-name "(.*)";$/!d;s//\1/;q' > $_lf)" > > I have installed a box with a recent snapshot and the resulting machine > will be named after what is set in dhcpd.conf. > > Regards, > Patrik Lundin
AH, sorry. I thought you were saying we could rely on dhclient setting the hostname after install. Too little caffeine makes for deficient answers. :-) .... Ken
