setting env vars

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Sure, you can put that just like you have it.  But it won't work, and
> will cause you all kinds of trouble.

That was my orignal question, will it work.  Apparently not.

> Remember all those daemons running on your system?  Some of them need
> the information provided by these files and these daemons have no
> "environment".  So where will they get the right info from?
>
> Since the info doesn't change, I suggest you get the address and name
> during bootup and put the correct info in the file.

Unfortunately, its not quite that simple.

> Using DHCP?  OK, after you have initialized the interface and obtained

This has nothing to do with DHCP, this is a static IP environment.

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