On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:54:44AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > On 26 April 2014 07:45, Patrik Lundin <patrik.lundin....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 07:21:28AM -0400, Kenneth Westerback wrote: > >> > >> Assuming you mean dhclient.conf and not dhcpd.conf, the hostname of > >> the system is not currently set by dhclient even if it is supplied. > >> The install process does cause dhclient to send the configured > >> hostname to the dhcpd server for it's own record keeping purposes. > >> > > > > I was thinking about the 'option host-name "foo";' at the end of > > autoinstall(8). From what I can tell this is picked up by > > get_responsefile() in /usr/src/distrib/miniroot/install.sub like so: > > > > 2118 # Prime hostname with host-name option > > 2119 hostname "$(sed -E '/^ *option host-name "(.*)";$/!d;s//\1/;q' > > $_lf)" > > > > I have installed a box with a recent snapshot and the resulting machine > > will be named after what is set in dhcpd.conf. > > > > Regards, > > Patrik Lundin > > AH, sorry. I thought you were saying we could rely on dhclient setting > the hostname after install. Too little caffeine makes for deficient > answers. :-) > > .... Ken >
Hmm. Currently I'd say that's redundant information in the manpage, but ... I've a diff for install.sub pending, that will allow autoinstall without dhcp and/or network and in this case the "System hostname" in the responsefile makes sense. Anyway, I see no immediate reason to change the manpage but will not object if someone wants to do that.
