[Spacewalk-list] Is It Possible to Update Hostname After System Registers to Spacewalk?

James Hogarth james.hogarth at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 19:23:16 UTC 2010


On 19 February 2010 18:14, Glennie, Jonathan - 0443 - MITLL
<jrglenni at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hello All-
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> I’ve been playing around with kickstarts in spacewalk 7 and have gotten
> things to the point where I can completely configure a base system to my
> requirements and boot that system into a graphical interface without my
> interaction.  The last thing I would like to do is change the system name.
> I can’t seem to find any way to update a system’s host name after it has
> registered to spacewalk, is there such an option?  Ideally I’d like to
> script this client side so I could execute a script on the machine one last
> time before it is good to go.    Worst case scenario, would it be possible
> to unregister the client, change its hostname, then re-register it with its
> new hostname, all form the client side?
>

For clarity - as it can get confusing - are you talking about the
hostname or the displayed named in the system list?

James




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