From 64da768b1d4e0da4ce227a5398bc80a26f019e05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David E. O'Brien" Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 05:15:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document that dhclient-script will only set the hostname if it is unset. Submitted by: John Baldwin --- contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5 | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5 b/contrib/isc-dhcp/common/dhcp-options.5 index 5e7ca000249..85f8b900da7 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