----- "pankaj dorlikar" <pankaj.dorlikar at gmail.com> wrote:

hello, i am using different hostname for clients than uname -n.hence i run runcklient.sh with --hostname=myhostname and it is running fine and sending data to server.But now whenever in future if runclient.sh gets stopped or client process gets killed,is ther any way to avoid running runclient.sh with -hostname=myhostname mannually?where sholud i fix so that my runclient.sh script always get"myhostname" and not the uname -n.i dont want to change bb-hosts file CLIENT=hostname tag. Any suggestions?

If you are using an init script, such as the one supplied in debian/hobbit-client.init or rpm/hobbit-client.init, then you would be able to set: CLIENTHOSTNAME=myhostname in /etc/default/hobbit-client (or, /etc/sysconfig/hobbit-client in more Red Hat-like RPMs).

Regards, Buchan