Re: ChangeIPAddress.command

Subject: Re: ChangeIPAddress.command

From: Stewart Lawler <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:21:52 +1000

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On 24/07/2008, at 1:42 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

On 2008-07-23 Simon Slavin wrote:
OS X Server (not the client) has more than 30 net-facing packages,
each of which expect to find the computer's current IP address in a
different configuration file.

I suppose there's some very good reason for all those packages to not
read the IP address from /L/P/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist and
I just fail to understand it ...

For a start I'm speculating that at least the FOSS-based stuff (openldap, apache, etc) would need too much modification to do that as historically they've relied on directives in their own syntax in their own config files in /etc and so on. If the hour wasn't quite the hour it is and my grasp of python a bit less casual than it is I'd just open up the changeip script and check it out.. I'll bet all is revealed within anyway.

FWIW, i just used changeip on a (10.5.4) box to change the hostname only, not the IP, and even that was a bit ... meh. Box is only running AFP & OD at this point (bound to AD so i unbound first of course) and it all seemed to run without complaint -- but then after restarting i still had to change the name in System Prefs->Sharing by myself. What's with that eh? (no you don't have to answer that :-)

..S.

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References:

>ChangeIPAddress.command (From: Ian Masters <email@hidden>)

>Re: ChangeIPAddress.command (From: Eli Bach <email@hidden>)

>Re: ChangeIPAddress.command (From: Ian Masters <email@hidden>)

>Re: ChangeIPAddress.command (From: Simon Slavin <email@hidden>)

>Re: ChangeIPAddress.command (From: Ansgar Wiechers <email@hidden>)