Thanks very much to all who responded, and to those whose replies are
still en route. Turns out my question was somewhat off the mark: I don't
really need to understand what's going on at boot time if all I want to
do is change the IP address.
THE ORIGINAL QUERY:
I need to change the IP address of a Sparc Ultra running Solaris 2.5.
Somewhere or other in the "rc" scripts, there has to be a command that's
the moral equivalent of "ifconfig hme0 206.71.232.160", but I haven't
been able to find it. The Answerbook and the man pages seem to be silent
on this point. Can anyone advise please? Will summarize if successful.
SUMMARY OF THE RESPONSES:
1. Change /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname.le0 (or .hme0, or whatever)
2. Run /usr/sbin/sys-unconfig (but save /etc/hosts first!)
3. Look at /etc/init.d/rootusr
4. Look for "ifconfig -au netmask + broadcast +" in rc scripts, which
get input from these files: /etc/hosts /etc/hostname.* /etc/nodename
/etc/net/*/hosts (3 files) ...and maybe /etc/defaultrouter too
5. Don't bother with the files under /etc, they're too complex; just
run sys-unconfig and reboot
THE RESPONDERS:
From: sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)
From: ahill@lanser.net (Alan Hill)
From: sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris) ... in response to a followup query
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Tim Evans)
From: croy@osiris.com (Claude Roy)
From: Dave Zavatson <dhzavatson@ucdavis.edu>
From: ybarrap@hpk400.hcssa.amedd.army.mil (Paul Ybarra)
From: Stuart Kendrick <sbk@fhcrc.org>
From: shane.bouslough@peri.com (Shane Bouslough)
From: Alex Finkel <afinkel@pfn.com>
From: Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
From: davem@tybrin.com (Dave McFerren)
From: james mularadelis <jamesm@matrix.newpaltz.edu>
From: poffen@k2.San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
From: gmp@adc.com (Gregory M Polanski)
From: scott-allendorf@uiowa.edu
From: etolido@flight.cnsgroup.com (Erik J. Tolido)
From: Jay Morgan <jay@atlanta.rssi.com>
From: etolido@flight.cnsgroup.com (Erik J. Tolido) ... with a correction
From: catey@wren.geg.mot.com (Don Catey)
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