Re: Howto set DHCP_HOSTNAME?

[Timo Hoenig <thoenig suse de>]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 06:40 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:

> I've been using nm with Fedora (now FC6) with good results.  I just had to
> buy a new usb enet if, because eth0 has died.  nm brings it up OK, but
> without DHCP_HOSTNAME.
> 
> In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, I have:
> ifcfg-eth2.bak
> which includes the DHCP_HOSTNAME line I had manually added, and I have:
> ifcfg-eth2, which nm made, which does not have DHCP_HOSTNAME.
> 
> How do I convince nm to include DHCP_HOSTNAME?

If you want to achieve this the NetworkManager backend for your
distribution needs to be enhanced.

For all backends but the SuSE backend there are currently only stubs for
nm_system_set_hostname.

   Timo