On Apr 02, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI, some quick checking leads me to believe that the default of
> dhclient3 is to set the hostname to the value returned by the DHCP
> server.
>
> /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script:
> ...
> set_hostname() {
> local current_hostname=$(hostname)
> if [ -z "$current_hostname" -o "$current_hostname" = "(none)" ]; then
> hostname "$new_host_name"
> fi
> }Only if it's not set, which is something very reasonable. It must not be the default, but it's still an important feature which must be available for the system administrator to enable. -- ciao, Marco
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