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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ frustration with Ansible. To execute boxconf on a target host, just run the following: - ./boxconf $TARGET_HOSTNAME + ./boxconf $HOSTNAME A deployment tarball will be generated and SCP'd to the remote box, where `boxconf` will re-exec itself. After gathering some information about the target system (such @@ -48,9 +48,8 @@ The `site/` directory does not exist in this repo. Its purpose is to hold person site-specific variables and scripts that you would rather not share in a public git repo. Ideally, you would use git submodules for this. -The `hostname` value is taken from the short hostname of the remote system. -If the remote hostname is incorrect (or unset), you can override the hostname -detection by passing the `-o $HOSTNAME` flag to boxconf. +If the hostname does not exist in DNS, you can manually specify the SSH +target by passing the `-s $IP_ADDRESS` option to `boxconf`. The `hostclass` value is matched based on the regular expressions listed in the [hostclasses](./hostclasses) file. |