On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:27:16AM +0200, Philippe ENTZMANN wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am writing scripts to automate some tasks in my Ubuntu LTSP server.
> To be clean, I need to guess the IP address of the server (the one used by
> clients) and also the network device (/dev/eth0 for example) used for the
> client network and the network device used for the Internet access.
> 
> I can parse some conf file but is there a better/unified approach to get
> those informations ?
> 
> PS : Scripts will run on server side

Some things that come to mind:

run ifconfig
read /etc/hosts
read /etc/network/interfaces
read dhcpd.conf
run 'hostname' followed by 'nslookup <Server: line of output of hostname>'
--this will get you partway there:  nslookup `hostname` | grep Server:

-Rob

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