Subject: klibc-utils: ipconfig fails to set hostname from dhcp reply
Package: klibc-utils
Version: 1.3.35-0bpo1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
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I have just been trying to upgrade our diskless boot setup at work to use
the latest kernels, and found that now, with the dhcp being done
outside the kernel by ipconfig, the hostname is no longer set to that
provided by the dhcp server.
This is a regression from the stable sarge kernel, and breaks our
method of configuring particular machines, hence the high severity.
Here is a patch, to make up for it!
--- usr/kinit/ipconfig/main.c-prebdb 2006-07-07 00:36:24.305742757 +0100
+++ usr/kinit/ipconfig/main.c 2006-07-07 00:42:34.729523904 +0100
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
if (netdev_setdefaultroute(dev))
printf("IP-Config: failed to set default route on %s\n",
dev->name);
+ if (dev->hostname[0] &&
sethostname(dev->hostname,strlen(dev->hostname)))
+ printf("IP-Config: failed to set hostname '%s' from
%s\n",dev->hostname,dev->name);
+
}
static void dump_device_config(struct netdev *dev)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages klibc-utils depends on:
ii libklibc 1.3.35-0bpo1 minimal libc subset for use with i
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