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Re: Proposal: /etc /usr/etc /usr/local/etc



>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org> writes:

    Mark> And in any case you can always get your IP by bootp and
    Mark> query a nameserver for your hostname.

You can also pass it in from LILO at bootup, with:

 append="HOSTNAME=hostname"

... in "/etc/lilo.conf".  In a transnames situation, the server can be
booted like that, so that the hostname will be known early in the
init.d/boot script.  Right after "/proc" is mounted, transnames begins
to function.  From that point on, the client/diskless/whatever
machines can boot with bootp, and get their hostnames from NIS+ or
DNS, as you say.


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