From e9f36b6f10846cf87025aa260877b26a125bb4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bp-sawyers Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 18:58:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improve the hosts table description git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@12149 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd --- perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm index 82c8a7215..ee7956b53 100644 --- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm +++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm @@ -323,10 +323,10 @@ deps => { hosts => { cols => [qw(node ip hostnames otherinterfaces comments disable)], keys => [qw(node)], - table_desc => 'IP address and hostnames of nodes. This info can be used to populate /etc/hosts or DNS.', + table_desc => 'IP addresses and hostnames of nodes. This info is optional and is only used to populate /etc/hosts and DNS via makehosts and makedns. Using regular expressions in this table can be a quick way to populate /etc/hosts.', descriptions => { node => 'The node name or group name.', - ip => 'The IP address of the node.', + ip => 'The IP address of the node. This is only used in makehosts. The rest of xCAT uses system name resolution to resolve node names to IP addresses.', hostnames => 'Hostname aliases added to /etc/hosts for this node.', otherinterfaces => 'Other IP addresses to add for this node. Format: -:,:,...', comments => 'Any user-written notes.',