On 7 Jun 2003 17:05:03 -0500, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 06/07 11:19, Yasir Malik wrote:
>> Thank you very much!  Right now I am writing this message on my laptop.
>> My sysadmin, who, by the way, takes long vacations, kept telling me that I
>> was not following the directions properly.  Also, is there a way to set my
>> hostname.  dhcp automatically assigns me my hostname (r-ymalik).
> 
> This was covered in another message in this thread, but:
>         supersede [ option declaration ] ;
> 
>        If for some option the client should always use a locally-
>        configured  value  or  values rather than whatever is sup-
>        plied by the server, these values can be  defined  in  the
>        supersede statement.
> 
> host-name is the option you want.

About a year ago I set up dhclient with a server which doesn't
provide a hostname on request. I tried setting dns queries in
several parts of the boot sequence (dhclient-exit-hooks etc.), but
the only place I could find that allowed the network to come up
enough to use it was rc.local, where I used something like :

new_ip_address=`ifconfig fxp0 | grep "inet " | cut -f2 -d" "` 
new_host_name=`/usr/bin/host $new_ip_address | cut -f5 -d" "`
hostname $new_host_name
old_ip_address=`cat /etc/myip`
if [ "$old_ip_address" != "$new_ip_address" ]; then
       echo $new_ip_address >| /etc/myip
fi

(I think)

What would be a better way to determine and set a real hostname in
such a situation?