Harland Christofferson wrote: [snip] > you know, you can change the hostname of the machine locally : > /etc/hostname > also, will nees to change localhost stuff: > /etc/hosts
thanks, but thats not really what i mean... if the DHCP server tells the client what its hostname is (as the rest of the world may see it), i was asking how to tell the local machine to set the hostname accordingly... the hostname may well be dynamic. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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