[CentOS] More on Re: Really changing the hostname
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 23:45:41 UTC 2013
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>
>>> dmaned - it is enough to enter the MAC at one place
>>> it does not matter that you have to look at udev and ifcfg
>>> the point is you do NOT need to put the MAC in both
>>
>> And my point is that once the machine has booted and created the udev
>> rule file, it will also have created matching MAC entries in the
>> ifcfg-* files. It is as much work to remove them
>
> uhm why they are existing at all?
> do you create your ifcfg-files with GUI crap?
No, it is anaconda or kudzu magic that happens before you would get to
a GUI even if you used one. Delete your copies on a box where you
have console access (or at least dchp) and see what you get after a
reboot.
> there where i work they do not exist since years
> and new machines are not installed from zero, they
> are cloned with existing configs and symlinks to
> the udev-rules in /root/
If the files exist and MACs are correct they normally don't change -
but I'm not quite sure what triggers kudzu to change things.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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