Marcus, on 2008/09/14 0:41, Marcus Moeller wrote:
Concerning RH or CentOS: I have to define /etc/hosts on all machines that do not obtain their hostname via DHCP. I have not yet figured out that the HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network is used in any form (correct me if I am wrong).
See /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. In that file you can find following lines ---- (snip) if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/network fi (snip) # Set the hostname. update_boot_stage RChostname action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME} (snip) ---- The ${HOSTNAME} variable comes form /etc/sysconfig/network. -- Shu _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos