Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:00:28 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf issues: host identity vs host config Message-ID: <19990325110028.A71063@relay.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199903251641.AA07426@bolero-x.rahul.net>; from Rahul Dhesi on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 08:41:22AM -0800 References: <199903251641.AA07426@bolero-x.rahul.net>
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> I think some very basic information identifying a host should be kept
> in its own place:
>
> host name and ip address for each network interface
>
> And I like the way SunOS does it: The file hostname.<if> contains the
> machine's host name, where <if> is the name of the network interface.
In /etc/rc.conf have the typical
network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"
line, but don't have a
ifconfig_fxp0="...."
this will cause ``/etc/rc.network'' to run this code:
# Set up all the network interfaces, calling startup scripts if needed
for ifn in ${network_interfaces}; do
if [ -e /etc/start_if.${ifn} ]; then
. /etc/start_if.${ifn}
fi
This is how DHCP users run ``/sbin/dhclient''. So in
``/etc/start_if.fxp0'' you can place ``hostname foo.bar.com'' along with
a ``ifconfig fxp0'' line.
--
-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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