Good news and bad news. The good news I have a patch to "/sbin/dhclient-script" that fixes this. The bad news is that is causes /etc/init.d/hostname.sh to fail at boot. To have the hostname be set by dhclient, with this patch, "/etc/hostname" must exist but have a length of zero:
--- /sbin/dhclient-script 2011-11-02 16:44:47.000000000 -0400
+++ /sbin/dhclient-script.bak 2011-08-09 14:50:08.000000000 -0400
@@ -152,9 +152,9 @@
;;
BOUND|RENEW|REBIND|REBOOT)
- if [ ! -s /etc/hostname ]; then
- # /etc/hostname lenth == 0 set hostname
- hostname "$new_host_name"
+ if [ -n "$old_host_name" -a -n "$host_name" -a \
+ "$host_name" != "$old_host_name" ]; then
+ hostname "$new_host_name"
fi
if [ -n "$old_ip_address" -a -n "$alias_ip_address" -a \
The hostname.sh issue isn't critical, but it's still a bit unsettling to
see init scripts unhappy at boot. I'll work on something for
"/etc/init.d/hostname.sh" so that it doesn't fail on boot. Things just
can't be easy, can they?
Tim Heckman
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