From: topher (topher@findtopher.com)
Date: Fri Sep 20 2002 - 08:45:33 EDT
That's it -- I can't take it any longer, and I've spent too much time on it already!!
Here's the thing -- I've got a Solaris 8 desktop that I'd like to be a DHCP client ( so that I don't have to mess with the NT group and get a static entry in DHCP, then hardcode my system to an IP... )
I know, 'ifconfig hme0 dhcp start' get's me an IP address, but our DHCP server (being the NT system that it is) isn't handing out a name, so I wind up with a system named "unknown" (as is right and proper according to /etc/init.d/network). So I've got the appropriate /etc/hostname.hme0 and /etc/dhcp.hme0 files in place, and things are working find for getting an ADDRESS...
HOWEVER -- the 'man dhcpagent' refers me to the '/etc/default/dhcpagent' file, where I can configure the system to ask for a particular hostname -- and it tells me to put an entry of the format:
inet host
in /etc/hostname.<interface> where 'host' is a token representing the hostname I would like to have...
'man dhcpagent' also recommends killing the dhcpagent process, removing /etc/dhcp/<interface>.dhc, then rebooting the system (which I've done) -- but during the rebbot I get a crazy error thrown up on the screen, but there's no log file that shows what the top of the error is, and since the error is longer than a terminal... well basically, I can't see what's generating the error...
can anyone help -- is 'inet' supposed to be a token too and the documentation is just goofy?
Thanks!
toph
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