topic Re: cannot set hosname in Operating System - HP-UX

cannot set hosname

Dario_28 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:55:38 GMT

Hi,
I have a workstation running hp-ux b11, and it has the "unknown" hostname. I changed it to another name in the netconfig file, but after rebooting the system the hostname is changed back to "unknown", regardless the netconfig and /etc/hosts files. The same thing happens with the $TERM value, that changes every reboot to "unknown".
Does anyone knows how to solve this??

Re: cannot set hosname

Michael Tully — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:14:10 GMT

Check that the /sbin/rc1.d/hostname has been run, see in /etc/rc.log

Re: cannot set hosname

Petr Simik_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:15:09 GMT

try configure by #set_parms hostname

what does #uname -a sayz?

Re: cannot set hosname

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:18:49 GMT

Hostname informations are loaded from netconf file and made set by /sbin/init.d/hostname

You can try manually by executing /sbin/init.d/hostname by changing /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file.

Did you get any changes there. And try with /sbin/set_parms command.

See hostname man page for more.

Re: cannot set hosname

Dario_28 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:55:17 GMT

Problem Solved. According to the rc.log file, It was a syntax error in the /etc/namesvrs file that was causing the problem.

Thanks to everybody who answered!!

Re: cannot set hosname

Dario_28 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:56:06 GMT

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