> If I set up kickstart to use DHCP and DHCP passes along host > information, this apparently does not get set. > > So, hostname always returns "localhost" in my %post. This worked fine > in RHAS 2.1. I noticed taroon uses a different dhcp client. > > Any suggestions? Yes. I execute the following script at the begin of the post section. The echo commands can be removed. #!/bin/bash echo Hostname `hostname -s` source /etc/sysconfig/network hostname $HOSTNAME echo Hostname `hostname -s` To get the name of the computer you should always use 'hostname -s' as RH sets the FQDN as hostname. cu Florian Festi
