Re: hostname corrupted [SUMMARY]

From: Jens Herder (herder@u-aizu.ac.jp)
Date: Fri Feb 03 1995 - 08:29:34 CST

In article <HERDER.95Jan28190204@pross66.u-aizu.ac.jp> herder@u-aizu.ac.jp (Jens Herder) writes:

> I try to administrate a Sun 10 with Solaris 2.2. The former hostname
> was "castor" but now the command hostname prints "-s". I cannot start
> the admintool anymore. How I can reset the hostname without reinstallation
> of the system. The file /etc/hostname.le0 contains "castor". What is
> wrong?

Thanks for all responses. The system is fine again. Let me summaries
the different approaches. I didn't check them all and used the command
uname -S <hostname> to set the name. I think the script hostname is
there only for historical reasons (BSD). I'm not sure if a reboot was
necessary, but after some login problems on the console I did it
including a touch to the file /etc/hostname.le0.

[1]
uname -S 'hostname'
then edit /etc/hostname.le0 and in /etc/hosts
[2]
# sys-unconfig <CR>

Be forewarned that sys-unconfig doesn't work cleanly with
Solaris 2.4

An alternate way other than sys-unconfig is to change the host* files
in 6 locations:

/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname.le0
/etc/nodename
/etc/ticlts/hosts
/etc/ticots/hosts
/etc/ticotsord/hosts

Note that "hostname" is the old SUNOS command (in /usr/ucb/hostname).
The equivalent of "hostname" under Solaris is "uname -n"
[3]
All you need to do is perform a touch reconfigure on the
/etc/hostname.le0. Then when you reboot your system you will be asked
what is your new system name.
[4]
Combinations of the above. 

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