Hi Peter, Yes, that's almost exactly what I have. It looks like the machine name is set to $HOSTNAME. I'm retrieving the IP address from /etc/sysconfig/network. I came up with this. I need to add the the full name to the list. Source /etc/sysconfig/network IPADDR=`hostname $HOSTNAME | cut -f 4 -d ' '` echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" > /etc/hosts echo "$IPADDR $HOSTNAME.umdnj.edu $HOSTNAME" >> /etc/hosts ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Pete Nesbitt [mailto:pete@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:54 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Hostname and IP address during kickstart On July 14, 2004 09:30 am, Ryan Golhar wrote: > I have a bunch of machines that I kickstart. They all use DHCP to > obtain their hostname and IP address. The names are address are all > static (in dhcpd.conf). > > Currently, in /etc/hosts on these machines, their hostname is set to > 127.0.0.1 and this interferes with PVM. I need to set their host name > to their correct IP address in /etc/hosts. What is the easiest way of > doing this during %post in kickstart? > > Ryan Hi Ryan, Here is a little shell script that will overwrite the existing /etc/hosts file with the new IP/hostname (as well as 127...). I have tested it in a dummy file. It needs to be run as root. If you have static entries, you need to add them into the script or you will lose them. #!/bin/bash # this ONLY WORKS IF there are no other entries in hosts!! # it will overwrite anything in the hosts file! HOSTS="/etc/hosts" TEMP_HOSTS="/tmp/hosts.tmp" NIC="eth0" IP="`ifconfig $NIC | grep inet | cut -d : -f 2 | cut -d \ -f 1`" FULL_NAME="`uname -n`" SHORT_NAME="`uname -n|cut -d. -f1`" echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" > $TEMP_HOSTS echo "$IP $FULL_NAME $SHORT_NAME" >> $TEMP_HOSTS # add more static entries if needed like this: #echo "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx somehost.domain.com somehost" >> $TEMP_HOSTS cat $TEMP_HOSTS > $HOSTS #end Hope that helps -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
