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Subject: RE: [9fans] ndb/cs pcauth pcf
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From: "Tiit Lankots" <t.lankots@aprote.ee>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Date: Mon,  1 Mar 2004 10:20:50 +0200
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> sysname=3D`{ndb/query ether `{cat /net/ether0/addr} sys}

cs ought to do this automagically. I ran into this one last November
and there was some discussion on the list (look for "ndb & cs").

>Basically, what I found out was that
>After setting up venti, cs stopped recognising my sysname.
>It was because the loopback interface got up first on boot,
>and because cs looks first by ip address.

Now, I had two alternative ways to deal with it:
>1) Poke around in /sys/src/cmd/ndb/cs.c and edit it to look
>by the ethernet address when by ip it did not succeed.=20
>I did it.
>2) Write the ip I get from the dhcp server into /lib/ndb/local.
>I did it too.