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authorDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-02 05:15:26 +0000
committerDavid E. O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-02 05:15:26 +0000
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Document that dhclient-script will only set the hostname if it is unset.
Submitted by: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=50785
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diff --git a/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5 b/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5
index 5e7ca0002493..85f8b900da77 100644
--- a/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5
+++ b/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5
@@ -232,7 +232,12 @@ of preference.
This option specifies the name of the client. The name may or may
not be qualified with the local domain name (it is preferable to use
the domain-name option to specify the domain name). See RFC 1035 for
-character set restrictions.
+character set restrictions. This option is only honored by
+.B dhclient-script(8)
+if the hostname for the client machine is not set (i.e., set to the empty
+string in
+.B rc.conf(5)
+).
.RE
.PP
.B option \fBboot-size\fR \fIuint16\fR\fB;\fR