On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:34:55PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: | If you do DHCP, it gets a hostname from the server, or sometimes falls | back to a bad default of "localhost". This is an area that needs more | work still, but in the daily builds you will be prompted for a hostname | after you reboot if the installer didn't set one.
This setting the hostname from DHCP didn't seem to work properly in my case - the installer set the hostname to localhost, and base-config didn't prompt to change it. My DHCP server definitely gives out hostnames correctly, I can see it in /etc/dhcpc/*.info, but the installer evidently didn't pick up on it. (This was with a daily build which I compiled myself a few days ago, and base-config came from a Debian mirror last updated just before the compromise last month.) I think that base-config should /always/ prompt for a hostname, just in case something breaks somewhere. Cameron. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
