This quick howto on 'Setting the Linux Hostname' was helpfull: http://www.cpqlinux.com/hostname.html
While installing Fedora the other day I noticed an interesting package called 'dnsmasq', that may be helpful to OSCAR installations like this...
Dag's Apt-RPMs site http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/ (BTW, yum+apt are very cool ...any plans to support Fedora/yum updates?)
# yum info dnsmasq
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 good
Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - core
Server: Dag's RPMs for Fedora Core 1 stable
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Extra Packages
Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - freshrpms
Server: JPackage 1.5 for Fedora Core 1
Server: Livna 3rd party packages with questionable (in USA) licenses -- use at your own risk
Server: Macromedia Flash Plugin for Fedora Core 1
Server: Fedora Core 1 NewRPMS.sunsite.dk
Server: Fedora Linux 1 - i386 - updates
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
Server: XFCE4 Packages Compatible with Fedora Core 1
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Looking in Available Packages:
Name : dnsmasq Arch : i386 Version: 2.2 Release: 0.rhfc1.dag Size : 166.25 kB Group : System Environment/Daemons Repo : Dag's RPMs for Fedora Core 1 stable Summary: A lightweight caching nameserver. Description: Dnsmasq is lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It is designed to provide DNS (domain name) and, optionally, DHCP services to a small network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows machines with DHCP-allocated address to appear in the DNS with names configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of diskless machines.
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Bernard Li wrote:
Okay so /etc/hosts keeps track of the changes made in the top section, but I guess the problem is each time you add/remove a node it thinks that they are all changes and therefore there are multiple occurences of the same hostname in the resulting /etc/hosts.
So I guess the bottom line is you can add the host in the /etc/hosts file on each node and OSCAR/SIS should not really blow it away.
Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Bernard
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