On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Lynn, Michael (IDS DM&DS) wrote: > Greetings. > > As you are probably aware, kickstart supports building servers with dhcp assigned ip addresses. > > My question has to do with the default behaviour of dhcpcd. If I build a server using a ks.cfg with > > network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp > > the ifup script ends up executing dhcpcd with a -H and assigns a hostname to the server that is provided by the dhcp server. I would like to avoid this and have the server hostname be assigned from > /etc/hosts. > > My first thought is to insert code into the ks.cfg that patches /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup to avoid using the -H flag on dhcpcd. > > Anyone tackle this yet? Any suggestions? In my experience the hostname is set at install time, and the name selected then sticks. You can set it yourself in %post by updating /etc/sysconfig/network. I prefer to have the name set at boot time by dhcp: to fix the name, I'd be happy to set it in the dhcpd.conf file. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
