I've tried both (not at the same time) and neither seem to have any
impact on giving the hostname an entry when it boots...is this possibly
a netboot iMac thing?
Craig
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 15:42 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Craig,
>
> You can either set 'get-lease-hostnames true;' in your dhcpd.conf file.
> That will cause the dhcpd to find the hostname in the /etc/hosts or
> via dns.
>
> OR, you can set 'use-host-decl-names on;' in dhcpd.conf, and then dhcpd
> will send the hostnames that you've specified in dhcpd.conf.
>
> Don't set both options, cuz then it won't work. And, if you don't set
> either option, dhcpd won't send a hostname to the client.
>
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 14:25 -0400, Michael Blinn wrote:
> >> /tmp/hosts is built by rc.sysinit in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc -- /tmp/hosts is
> >> created at boot time and is relative to the thin client chroot.
> > ----
> > OK - that was big...I get it
> >
> > one more thing, I keep getting a blank hostname
> >
> > my dhcpd.conf for this client is...
> >
> > host imac-linux-1 {
> > option vendor-class-identifier "AAPLBSDPC";
> > option vendor-encapsulated-options 01:01:02:08:04:01:00:00:01:82:
> > 05: # length
> > 69:6d:61:63:34; # hostname
> > option option-128 e4:45:74:68:00:00;
> > option option-129 "NIC=ne IO=0x300";
> > # option option-129 "NFSOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048";
> >
> > hardware ethernet 00:03:93:7f:5d:1a;
> > fixed-address 192.168.3.47;
> > option host-name "imac-linux-1.tobyhouse.com";
> > }
> >
> > which I would have expected it to get the hostname from option host-name
> > but it doesn't and though I can manually set it, that ain't the same. I
> > can see the code in rc.sysinit but I can't conceive of a method to alter
> > what is in rc.sysinit and it should pretty much work as is if I can set
> > the right option somewhere.
> >
--
Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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