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