From owner-freebsd-doc Sat Jun 15 14:50:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08ED437B40B for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5FLo1t79443; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from nwww.freebsd.org (www.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B5937B400 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nwww.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5FLmMhG091184 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g5FLmMaR091183; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200206152148.g5FLmMaR091183@www.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:48:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/39348: kenv fetch of hostname requires dhcp/bootp to specify one Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 39348 >Category: docs >Synopsis: kenv fetch of hostname requires dhcp/bootp to specify one >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 15 14:50:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Dirk-Willem van Gulik >Release: 5.0-CURRENT >Organization: sammawat >Environment: FreeBSD foem.leiden.webweaving.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #17: Sat May 4 01:04:42 CEST 2002 dirkx@foem.leiden.webweaving.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FOEM i386 >Description: In bootp or dhcpd config you need to specify a option host-name "dubbeldrank.leiden.webweaving.org"; to make sure that the kenv of the hostname in rc.diskless1 works (though in most cases hostname -s will return something so the kenv does not get called at all. Perhaps this is a bug too in the rc.diskless1 script. >How-To-Repeat: set up a diskless machine according to diskless(8) >Fix: Just documenting this in diskless(8). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: X-Originating-IP: 62.251.72.224 X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message