On 27 February 2012 16:19, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > If you are generating random hostnames then does it actually matter > what name the current host uses? Would "localhost" be as good as any > randomly generated one?
The randomness is needed to avoid name collisions when multiple devices are running. They offer SSH/SFTP and Samba services over the network, and need to be available by hostname rather than IP address (via Avahi and whatever Samba uses, NetBIOS I think). > You could still set the hostname randomly. Then later come back and > write the current hostname to the /etc/hostname file when it is > writable. Later in the rcS sequence, or in rc[2-5]? Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CA+Zd3FcYh+YkGoJmCRUeaXa6uVcfJ_CKq2tKtTDsMHdy-dGo=w...@mail.gmail.com
