setting env vars

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, David A. Bandel wrote:
> 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.

There's no 'installation'.  They're complete, fully functional Redhat
installs.  The only thing i have to do is setup the unique networking
information and then they're live.

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