James Reynolds
University of Utah
Student Computing Labs
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801-585-9811
At 10:52 AM -0700 1/21/04, Trumbull, Kevin wrote:
I am an admin at a school with around 1200 Macs. Currently
99% of them are
still running OS9. One of my goals when starting here has been to move the
campus to OSX. I am familiar with UNIX. I run OSX as my primary OS. I do a
fair amount of scripting and configuring, but I am not really much of a
coder.
I have a working OSX deployment image running 10.2.8. The
only thing that
doesn't fully work is the script that I created to set up the machine for lab
use. The script creates tracking scripts, location based automation scripts,
and also changes the name of the machine. The problem is that I need to
change the appletalk name of the machine from the command line and have it
stick. Changing the entry in /etc/hostconfig does not work. I have found the
file that contains the entry, which is:
/var/db/SystemConfiguration/preferences.xml. There are two entries that I am
concerned with:
<key>Network</key>
<dict>
<key>HostNames</key>
<dict>
<key>LocalHostName</key>
<string>Unnamed-Machine</string>
</dict>
</dict>
<key>System</key>
<dict>
<key>ComputerName</key>
<string>This Machine is not
named</string>
<key>ComputerNameEncoding</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
Being that this is an XML file and one of the core config
files I wanted to
use defaults. However there appears to be no listing for these keys in the
global listing of all things alterable with defaults write. Apparently there
is a registry that defaults accesses that contains a listing of keys and where
they may be found. I don't know where it is located. Also there should be a
command line XML editing utility somewhere so that "<command> -w
(write/read/whatever) <absolutepath> <key> <value>" should work. I have not
been able to find one. I had hoped this to be possible with defaults but it
does not seem that way. I'd make a script rewrite the file like I did in my
script with hostconfig, except for the fact that the file contains the MAC
address of the machine (which I can work around, but would rather not).
Basically I'd prefer to do this in a bit less hacked together fashion.
Any ideas?
ps: I am more than willing to detail all of the changes that
I have made.
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