setting env vars

[David A. Bandel]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 19:07:59 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 02/10/03 18:35, David A. Bandel wrote:
> > If I understood more of what Lonnie needs to do, there might be a
> > way, but he's been rather cryptic about it so it must be a secret.
> 
> Its not a secret, its just that i didn't think it was relevant.  I've 
> got User-Mode-Linux images, ready for action, except that they each
> time i deploy a new one, i have to manually go in and edit an
> assortment of files under /etc with the correct IP address, hostname
> etc.  I was hoping to just replace all those places with a variable,
> and then i'd just have to edit a single place.

Ahhh.  Light comes on.  Now I understand.  

Is the installation scripted?  Because usually, there's a way for the
scripting process, while it's running, to grab variables from a file and
apply them to the various /etc files when it writes them during the
install, much as a number of automated install programs do.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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