SUMMARY: Changing hostname & IP-adress under Solaris 7

From: Monika Gindl (m_gindl@ciss.co.at)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 10:19:39 CST


Thanks for your immediate answer to:

David G Wiseman <magi@csd.uwo.ca>
Dirk Jansen <dirk@abcomp.be>
rsr@macromedia.com
Larry Garrett <Larry_Garrett@csx.com>
"Satinder S Mangat" <mangat_satinder@jpmorgan.com
Casper Dik <casper@holland.sun.com>
"Schultz, Juergen" <Juergen.Schultz@m.dasa.de>
Carlo Musante <carlo@ucomm.wayne.edu>
"Reichert, Alan" <aareichert@tasc.com>
Colin_Melville@mastercard.com
Dirk Boenning <Dirk.Boenning@capcom.de>
Kyung Suk <ksuk@osage.com>
Allan West <awest@stat.ufl.edu>
Ronald Loftin <reloftin@syr.edu>
John Hackett <hackett.john@gene.com>

and all others that may mail an answer regarding my problem after this
SUMMARY!

Solution:
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I forgot to change entries in:

/etc/nodename
/etc/net/ticlts/hosts
/etc/net/ticots/hosts
/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts/

After setting entries in those files to "newhost", everything works.

rsr@macromedia.com suggested to use the command:

setuname -n <newhostname>

- I haven't tried this command,, but I took a short look at the manpage,
and I think this could also be a solution.

>From sun, it is recommended to use command:

/usr/sbin/sys-unconfig

Thanks!!!!!!!!

Best regards,
monika.

Original question:

> Hi sun-managers,
>
> I want to change IP-adress and hostname of a SPARCstation-10 running
> Solaris 7 (NIS-environment).
>
> I changed entries in these files:
> /etc/hostname.le0
> /etc/inet/hosts
>
> on the NIS server:
> /etc/domain/ethers
> (new hostname is already in /etc/domainname/hosts)
>
> When I boot the workstation, it seems to be "newhost" for all other
> machines, but on the SS-10 itself the old hostname still appears (boot
> message after le0-configuration: "Hostname: oldhost"; as prompt on
> dtlogin screen ("Welcome to oldhost"); and when I do a uname -n)
>
> Any help would be appreciated!



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