topic Re: Changing Hostname ????? in Operating System - HP-UX

Changing Hostname ?????

Tony Constantine — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:00:51 GMT

Hi,
We currently have an RX1600 running HPUX11.23 and are having issues with changing the hostname of this machine.

We have done the obvious /etc/hosts netconf we have also used set_parms hostname but whenever we reboot the box it reverts back to its old name.

having checked through which files contain the old name we find it is set in the following:
/etc/net/ticlts/hosts
/etc/net/ticots/hosts
/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts

Changed the contents of these files and re-ran set_parms but whenever we boot the machine it reverts back to the old name nad the files above contain the old name also.

Has anyone got any idea why this would be occuring.

Thanks

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

Robert-Jan Goossens_1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:13:33 GMT

Hi,

Check the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

change the hostname,also change the hostname in the /etc/hosts and reboot your server.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

John Palmer — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:15:09 GMT

Well the hostname is sourced from netconf which you've changed.

The only thing that I can think of is that there's a script somewhere in the startup environment that's running hostname .

You could try searching likely places for for example /usr...

find /usr -type f -exec grep -l {} \;

Regards,
John

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

Carlos Muñoz_1 — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:19:04 GMT

Hello. You can change the hostname with the following commandos: uname - S or set_parms.

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

bhavin asokan — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:24:29 GMT

hi,

the following link may help u

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=624488

regds,

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

bhavin asokan — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:32:24 GMT

hi,

the following link also.
check you are having any extra script (made by administrator) which is running at system startup.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=689442

regds,

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

Tony Constantine — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:49:35 GMT

Thanks to all who replied, I found a copy of an old netconf in /etc/rc.config.d, once I moved that out of the way and reset the hostname with set_parms and rebooted it is working fine.

Re: Changing Hostname ?????

Tony Constantine — Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:50:23 GMT

Solution was to remove a backup copy of an old netconf file from /etc/rc.config.d