"unsetting" global options for a host
Rick Coloccia
coloccia at geneseo.edu
Tue Jan 31 20:05:22 UTC 2012
Simon, yes, that's exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. Anyone out
there know if it's possible?
On 1/31/2012 4:39 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Christian Kratzer wrote:
>
>> why don't you just put the hosts in different groups depending on the
>> options they need. Sounds like you know the specific hosts you need
>> to exluded so why not just list them in a group.
>
> Not sure about the OP, but in the general case it's more likely to be
> a case of "all clients whether specified by host statements or not get
> option X - except for ..."
>
> So it makes sense to specify the option in the global scope so it
> applies to all dynamic clients, in all subnets & pools, as well as
> defined hosts. The problem then is unsetting an option for a small
> number of clients - which might not have fixed addresses. So it would
> be ideal if the following were possible :
>
> option X blah ;
>
> subnet ...
> range ...
> }
>
> group ...
> unset option X
> host ...
> hardware ...
> host ...
> hardware ...
> }
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Rick Coloccia, Jr.
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