Re: More on Re: Really changing the hostname

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> you do not understand what i have said
>>>
>>> the race between kernel enumeration and udev is the reason
>>> why it is unpredictable, do not use the kernel names on machines
>>> with more than one interfaces and NOTHING will fuckup your
>>> "lan0", "lan1"....
>>
>> I don't understand how you create that udev entry before you need it
>
> easy if you know the MAC address

Do you mean you make the change in a virtual system image before
copying/changing the virtual MACs?   Or in a script that runs during
boot up before the network comes up?

>> Or why one udev-assigned name is different from any other name once
>> it is in place in that file
>
> you know what race-condition means?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145

I suppose that's possible, but doesn't have much to do with the issue
of making the ifcfg-* files match the MAC address.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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