On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Erich Titl wrote: > At 12:06 23.02.02 -0800, you wrote: > > >Message: 8 > >Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:36:15 -0800 (PST) > >From: Eric House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: [Leaf-user] How do packages install symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/ ? > > > > > >PS My package updates local DNS to include the names of local hosts > >granted dhcp leases. The init.d script exists only to add a line to > >/etc/crontab. If there's a better way to do that please let me know. > > I was wondering if it was not worth giving those local hosts fixed > addresses using the MAC address in dhcpd.conf. That way you may save > yourself the trouble of updating the IP addresses in DNS. > > The addresses of most local hosts will normally not change that frequently. > > Just my 2 cents.... > > Erich > >
along the lines of my other message, that's great if you've got five or ten hosts; but Eric's way of doing it has potential to scale well beyond the place at which you want to be manually tracking MAC addresses. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
