Hello Folks
We're looking for where LINUX stores it's IP address.
Our initial thinking was that /etc/sysconfig/network is sourced at boot time
by /etc/rc.d/init.d/inet which uses the value of $HOSTNAME to do a lookup in
/etc/hosts to establish the IP address.
This has proven to be false.
From further investigation I'm concluding that LINUX is similar to AIX in
that via SMIT on AIX, one adds or changes the IP address and this change is
reflected in /etc/hosts & written to the ODM. Whereas on LINUX, one updates
the IP address via linuxconf and this change is written to some binary
somewhere but not reflected in /etc/hosts (feature in linuxconf-1.16r10-2
?????).
Any pointers on which file linuxconf writes to?
Rgs
Phil
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