hostconfig process

[Martin Costabel]

John C. Welch wrote:
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> bill, and it wouldn't matter. However, for Mac OS X client, I'd not use
> scutil anyway, but rather networksetup, as it's got a much cleaner way to go
> about this.

/usr/sbin/networksetup exists on Mac OS X server. On Tiger client, it 
comes in two flavors, networksetup-jaguar and networksetup-panther (how 
clean is that on Tiger?), the latter symlinked to networksetup; but you 
won't see it if you don't happen to have 
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support 
in your PATH.

Together with its brother systemsetup, this is a promising candidate for 
the "worst-documented and most obscure Mac OS X command" contest.

Anyway, you can't set the hostname with it, only the computername.
Dan's scutil --set HostName, although also undocumented, has the 
advantage of working.

-- 
Martin