On 03/10/2010 05:53 PM, Mr. X wrote:
> the Xen xm .PY config has an 
> extra = 'console=ttyS0  xxyyzz=HOSTNAME'
That's brilliant!
So if the parameter was "myname" then you could do:
hostname `cat /proc/cmdline  | tr ' ' '\n' | awk -F= ' $1 == "myname" { print $2 } '  `
Brett