Package: fai-server Version: 2.10.1
Hi, I was having some issues getting my machines to actually play nice in regards to hostnames and I found some discussion on the mailing list from earlier this year that referenced adding HOST= to the append line of the pxe config for a specific host. This seems little tedious. I am still in a testing phase and am playing with fai under vmware workstation, I am somewhat assuming that once I have DNS functioning it will pick up hostnames nicely, in the meantime /etc/hosts doesn't seem to have the impact I had hoped. As others would seem to benefit from it as well I cracked open fai-chboot and added a -H option (I hope I listed it correctly in the getopts line) -H appends HOST=$host where $host is the hostname that the admin entered on the command line here's the diff: 244c244,246 < $append="append $bootprot root=$rootfs $opt_k $flags\n"; --- > $append="append $bootprot root=$rootfs $opt_k $flags"; > $append .= " HOST=$host" if $opt_H; > $append.="\n"; 324c326 < getopts('gBc:d:ehnvlLiIp:f:Frk:Sto'); --- > getopts('gBc:d:ehnvlLHiIp:f:Frk:Sto'); It only took a few minutes to do, but, I saw mention it had come up a few times on the mailing list and IRC. Cheers, Stewart