On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 01:11:49PM -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: > How exactly does one configure the /etc/hosts for using DHCP? I can't > really tell at all..... > > Elly
AFAIK there is nothing different *required*. For my machines using dhclient I have an /etc/hosts.orig which only contains entries for localhost and the machines on my network which have fixed addresses. I then use /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks to add the current address to /etc/hosts. So, on my machine 'bluesbreaker' I have: ken@bluesbreaker ~ $cat /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks if [ -f /etc/hosts.orig ]; then cp /etc/hosts.orig /etc/hosts echo "$new_ip_address bluesbreaker bluesbreaker.mydomain" >>etc/hosts else echo "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" >>/etc/hosts fi (perms 644 for the exit-hooks). Obviously, it works without the .orig file, but for varying definitions of 'works'. ;-) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
