Re: [Sheflug] Re: IP address via DHCP

[matt fairtlough <nospam [at] fairtlough.net>]

Richard Ibbotson wrote:

>> but instead it was set to just pc-62-31-17-212-sh which isn't much
>> use as an IP address though it did give me the information I
>> wanted.  On the same theme, how do I change the hostname to
>> something other than "linux"?
> 
> If this is SuSE 7.2 then all you have to do is change the 
> configuration file with YaST.  Nothing more than that.
> 
> Open up YaST and look for the part of the menu that mentions the 
> config file.  Then select start DHCP and that's it.

sorry, I didn't make myself very clear.  DHCP was working fine, behind 
the scenes.  It did it so well, I didn't even realise what IP address it 
had assigned.  this made it difficult to telnet and ftp to my machine 
externally.  All I really needed to do is to find a way of automatically 
emailing myself at work at boot time with the new IP address so I can 
access my machine from work.  So now I know how to find the new IP 
address (with ifconfig) and I know how to mail it to myself (with mail 
and a pipe), but I still don't know how to do that automatically at boot 
time.  Any help much appreciated!

Matt.

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