Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-12-02 Thread Dave Whiteley
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:06:02PM +1100, Jim Richardson wrote: > Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. > > > > ... /etc/hostname is identical on all > > the machines. The IP address

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Richardson
Dave Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. > > ... /etc/hostname is identical on all > the machines. The IP addresses are correctly discovered and set. > > I know that I could write a script

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 10:10:13AM +, Dave Whiteley wrote: > What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname > after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. dhcp-client has some options in /etc/dhcpcd/config that you can play with to do what you want. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTEC

Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Whiteley
Please, What is the polite Debian way of automatically setting the hostname after booting using BOOTP/DHCP. I have a couple of labs full of machines, all more or less identical. They are all dual-booted Linux and XP . They are maintained by dumping OS images onto them using a proprietary produc