Brett Worth wrote: > 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 Agreed, that sounds great, but I am not sure what you mean by "Xen xm .PY config". Can you elaborate? Thanks