CentOS - Apr 2010 - How to display the IP on the welcome screen

Hi all,

I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a DHCP
enabled LAN
When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the
welcome screen.
This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and
logging off before finally ssh'ing to the VM.

Does anyone have a clue on how to do this ??

Thanks!
PS: security is not an issue as I'm running the VM on my local laptop
PPS: this is a "confort" issue only (lazy me... I know !!!)

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Patrick Derwael
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a
> DHCP enabled LAN
> When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the
> welcome screen.
> This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and
> logging off before finally ssh'ing to the VM.
>
> Does anyone have a clue on how to do this ??
man ssh

ssh <servername> ifconfig | grep "inet addr"

        mark

From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
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Of Patrick DERWAEL
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:01 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

Hi all,
I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a DHCP
enabled LAN
When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the
welcome screen.
This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and
logging off before finally ssh'ing to the VM.

============
Is this to be shown on the GUI welcome screen or when you eg ssh in?

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/Sorin
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Sorin Srbu a ?crit :
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
> Of Patrick DERWAEL
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:01 PM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen
>
> Hi all,
> I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a
DHCP
> enabled LAN
> When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the
> welcome screen.
> This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and
> logging off before finally ssh'ing to the VM.
>
> ============>
> Is this to be shown on the GUI welcome screen or when you eg ssh in?
>
>   
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try a bash script like the following :

#!/bin/sh
ADRESS=`ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | sed
s/addr:// |
head -n 1`
echo "The IP adress is : $ADRESS." > /etc/issue

-- 
Cordialement, / Greetings,
Georghy FUSCO

Ideally, it should be displayed on the GUI, like the date/time and hostname
 

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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
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Of Sorin Srbu
Sent: mardi 20 avril 2010 16:22
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen


From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
Of Patrick DERWAEL
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:01 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: [CentOS] How to display the IP on the welcome screen

Hi all,
I'm running CentOS 5.4 in a VMware guest, with the host connected to a DHCP
enabled LAN
When CentOS comes up, I would like to see the IP adress displayed on the
welcome screen.
This would save me the hassle of logging in the VM, getting the IP, and
logging off before finally ssh'ing to the VM.

============
Is this to be shown on the GUI welcome screen or when you eg ssh in?

-- 
/Sorin