Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, William Hooper wrote: > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> I did a find from / to fgrep for stmike. >>> Except for files in /home/hennebry I got >>> /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db >>> /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases >>> >> [snip] >> >>> None of these seem like likely prospects. >>> >> >> dhclient-eth0.leases screams relevant to me. > > I had thought so to until someone told me that > dhcp didn't provide hostnames. They are mistaken. > Here it is: [snip] > option host-name "stmike"; [snip] > Is this telling me that the client told the server that > the client's name is stmike, that the server told the client that the > client's name is stmike, or something else? According to man dhclient, the dhclient.leases file stores information received from the dhcpd server. -- William Hooper
