[ProgSoc] automagically setting/changing linux hostname on a heap of machines

Andrew Halliday andrew.halliday at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 02:29:28 EST 2008


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:59 AM, victor rajewski <askvictor at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I noticed that the hostname gets set very early in the boot process -
> before networking. Are there likely to be issues if the hostname is
> changed later in the boot process


I'm not sure, but if you were implementing something along the lines of what
I suggested you could always enter a condition in the script which soft
reboots the system after a name change. That I imagine would take care of
any such issues. But like I said, I'm not sure.

-Andi.
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