Hello, I have had the same problem. I have modified fai-chboot so HOSTNAME is added to the pxe boot file when it's generated.
Find the row and add HOSTNAME=$host: $append="append $initrd $bootprot $rootfs HOSTNAME=$host $opt_k $flags $action\n"; Regards Krasimir Arnaudov -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hiro Protagonist Sent: Montag, 18. Juni 2012 13:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HOSTNAME variable sorry to bother again about this issue, but now i checked that my DNS server works correclty: i can boot into the live system and "# dig" reverse DNS queries. but "# hostname" still returns "fai-live-host" (which is also in /etc/hostname). "# hostname -f" fails (temporary failure in name resolution). if i log in to the live system and change the hostname to the correct hosname by hand, "# hostname -f" also works. the ${HOSTNAME} variable is always "fai-live-host". again my question: where is the hostname (and the HOSTNAME variable) set during the FAI boot? how can i debug what's happening there? or is there another check i could run? any ideas? thanks in advance! On 06/13/2012 12:05 PM, Hiro Protagonist wrote: > hello > > i seem to have some problems with my DHCP/DNS settings. when trying a > FAI installation, the HOSTNAME variable always resolves to > "fai-live-host". i tried to create a workaround that gets the hostname > from the ipaddress, assigns it to $HOSTNAME (and exports HOSTNAME). > but that does not work: FAI ends up in a shell and $HOSTNAME is still > "fai-live-host". > > where does FAI assign the HOSTNAME variable? can't i change it? or > what else could have gone wrong? > > (this is on FAI 3.4.0ubuntu2) > > thanks in advance!
