Hi,
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Jan Damborsky wrote:
> christoph.beyer at desy.de wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> thanks for the hint !
>
> Sure :-)
>
>>
>> I tried
>>
>> <propval name='hostname' type='astring' value='xyz' />
>>
>> But a different static hostname is not what I want a good value for this
>> property (imho) would be 'take_from_dhcp'
>
> Understood - it is not currently available - I think this is what
> bug 5556 will address.
>
>>
>> My postprocessing starts after the first reboot, at that time the machine
>> comes up with a no-sense hostname (opensolaris or whatever). After the
>> individual postprocessing is done, I like to have static hostnames which
>> is another problem with nwams (?)
>
> What do you mean by static hostname ?
In the old world it would be an '/etc/hostname.<interface>' file with the
hostname in it and a '/etc/hosts' entry for that hostname also
'/etc/nodename' probably. In case of trouble with electricity or core
routers dhcp is usually not available though most of the machines could
run happily ...
cheers
christoph
>
> Jan
>
>
>
best regards
~christoph
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