Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:23:54AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: >> The installer currently defaults the hostname of a new installation to >> "debian". I think it would be sensible for it default to whatever >> hostname is provided via DHCP, if one is, otherwise fall back to >> defaulting to "debian". > > It could be done but I've no clue how to glean the DHCP-sent hostname > from dhclient's output. Can you give me any pointers?
Hmm. I believe that it's in /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases. The last lease is always the correct one. So, something vaguely like this: tac /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases \ | grep -m 1 'option host-name' \ | sed 's/ *option *host-name *\"\([^ ]*\)\"\; */\1/' (If it's not set in any lease, there won't be an 'option host-name "foo";' line, so this will return the empty string.) I'm using dhclient3 rather than dhclient, so I may be wrong; also, my ISP doesn't send a host-name, so I'm just using educated guesswork here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
