Re: {bb} Description line / alternate name for a host?

[Torsten Richter <bb4@richter-it.net>]

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Hi Misty,

you can put a textfile called bbaliasname in the etc/ directory on every
client containing only the "better understandable hostname" your manager
wants and use these names in your bb-hosts file.

That way you can have your own names in DNS and some other for BB

HTH
Torsten

Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
| Is it possible (maybe with BBGEN) to put an alternate name for a host
on the
| BBDISPLAY page, or maybe a mouse-over with a description?  My manager
| doesn't think my barnyard inspired hostnames (baa, oink, honk, etc) are
| descriptive enough (oh come on!!!) but I would rather not change all
my DNS
| records!  By the way I am using DNS for conn test, so BB really does
need to
| know the real hostnames.
|
| Thanks for any ideas,
| Misty
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