[24142] in Athena Bugs
linux installer and syncconf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Foley)
Tue Sep 16 10:08:08 2003
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From: Joe Foley <foley@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:08:08 -0400
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I recently did a linux install of the is-linux on a friend's machine
and discovered that the dhcp option is still not quite right. It would
be fine except that it leaves both the hostname and IP address blank
which makes the machine not start up when the install completes.
I don't know if the syncconf bug is still an issue, but it used
to be if you ran syncconf with an empty ip and hostname it would
update it's internal config file which would then break horribly
the next time syncconf tried to use it.
Joe
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