Re: Change IP Address & Restart
Re: Change IP Address & Restart
- Subject: Re: Change IP Address & Restart
- From: Tod Hallberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:22:59 -0600
- Organization: Monical Pizza Corporation
Well, if you didn't randomly need to set ip addresses, you could have a copy of the TCP/IP
preferences on the Hard Drive 2. Then once your booted off of HD2 you could just use the
copy command to copy over the TCP/IP preferences on HD1.
hope this helps
tod
Charles McLaughlin wrote:
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Hello,
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I am writing a script for use with Apple Software Restore to automate the
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process of refreshing computer lab machines. My two questions pertain to
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setting the IP address and computer name and scripting a restart/shut down.
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I would like to change the IP address and computer name of a system while
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booted off a different startup disk. For instance, I will boot off "Hard
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Drive 1" and want to change the IP address and computer name of the system
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on "Hard Drive 2". I am guessing that the IP address and computer name are
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stored in preference files. Is it possible to edit these files with a
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script?
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Also, I was wondering if a script in the "Shutdown Items" folder can detect
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whether a user attempted to shutdown or restart the computer? I've noticed
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that shutdown scripts with tell statements cause to the system to not
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restart/shutdown. I would like to construct a condition to work around
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this. For instance, if the user attempted to restart, then the script would
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do some stuff and restart. Or... if the user attempted to shutdown, then
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the script would do some stuff and shutdown.
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(Quicksilver G4's running OS 9.2)
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Thanks,
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Charles
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