[gPXE] sanbootconf hostname setting

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Tue Mar 23 20:36:18 EDT 2010


Ok, that's a good plan. I like the manual service start trick. :)

Will update sanbootconf to do this when I get a moment.

Michael

"Shao Miller" <Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca> wrote:

>Michael Brown wrote:
>>
>> ...Shao: what do you think of using the "DHCP Hostname" value?
>>
>
>Sorry about the delayed response!  I see no problem with using that 
>value-name.  It's intuitive and DHCP can certainly ignore it.  This 
>avoids sanbootconf being responsible for any trouble, but leaves the 
>user with the choice to potentially cause their own. :)
>
>If needed, any services that depend on the hostname being set by a 
>script can be set to manual startup, then the same script can start them up.
>
>- Shao Miller


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