On 5/7/2015 5:59 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2015-05-07, John Hupp wrote: >> I find that /etc/hosts in the fat client filesystem does not match the >> /etc/hosts found in the image. It seems that LTSP must be >> auto-generating one at client boot. In any case /etc/hosts in the fat >> client filesystem has an alias line that resolves "server" to my host's >> current IP address. >> >> Can anyone confirm that this is the case? > Yes, /etc/hosts is generated on boot of the thin client. See > /usr/share/ltsp/init-ltsp.d/09-hostname for the code that does this. > > You can change the "server" alias using the SERVER_NAME variable and add > arbitrary entries using HOSTS_XX in lts.conf. > > The code dates from when the standard LTSP environment didn't typically > have name resolution, which is an assumption we should re-think in > modern LTSP environments. > > >> Documented anywhere? > Apparently not. > > >> If I use the literal scan server hostname for the image's sane net.conf, >> the scanner is not detected. But the scanner is detected if I use the >> alias "server." >> >> Victory! > Congrats! > > > live well, > vagrant >
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