Sorry Holger, my previous post to this bug was pure crap. Please ignore it...
Now I rather followed Thomas' suggestion to check which of the variables defined by get-boot-info may be needed during softupdates. The remaining ones are: - $SERVER is used multiple times, this should really be discussed (it is questionable, however, how this value could be obtained reliably in the presence of SVN, CVS, git, etc.) - $IPADDR is used to add an entry to /etc/hosts, but it is tested for non-zeroness before, so it should be fine. - $IPADDR, $NETMASK, $GATEWAYS, $BROADCAST are all used in examples/simple/scripts/FAIBASE/30-interfaces to create /etc/network/interfaces, but their use is guarded by the non-zeroness of $IPADDR. I think that only $SERVER remains relevant in case of softupdates, because it should suffice to do the operations guarded by $IPADDR once, at install time. Automatically determining the proper value of $SERVER in case of softupdates seems to be impossible, because of the various options for get-config-dir-*. I'd suggest that we add a note to the documentation instead, probably around "<sect id=isavelog>Save log files<p>". It should state that both, $LOGSERVER and $monserver, must be manually defined in case of softupdates for savelog/monitoring to remote hosts to work. Best, Michael
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