topic Re: hostname that begin with numerals in Operating System - HP-UX

hostname that begin with numerals

Sanjay Yugal Kishore Ha — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:40:22 GMT

Hello SysAdmins,

I plan to assign hostnames starting with numerals for my HP-UX machines viz. 11i-devel, 11o-test and so on.

Is this a correct thing to do? I couldn't find any documentation that says that the hostname must not begin with numerals.

Thanks,
Sanjay

Re: hostname that begin with numerals

Pete Randall — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:44:34 GMT

Sure, that's fine. In fact if you run "/sbin/set_parms hostname", it tells you that the name must "start with a letter or a number."

Pete

Re: hostname that begin with numerals

Charles McCary — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:46:51 GMT

Sanjay,

Technically it's fine. My only concern would be that if these boxes have the OS upgraded in the future you're names our now out of whack. As long as you're fine with that, I certainly am.

thanks,
c

Re: hostname that begin with numerals

S.Rider — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:02:26 GMT

I'm not sure I like the -'s in a filename though. I've never seen that.

Re: hostname that begin with numerals

Pete Randall — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:11:49 GMT

OK - to continue with "/sbin/set_parms
hostname", then:

it must:

* Start with a letter or number.

* Contain no more than 63 characters.

* Contain only letters, numbers, underscore (_), or dash (-). The underscore (_) is not recommended.

Pete

Re: hostname that begin with numerals

Sanjay Yugal Kishore Ha — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:25:57 GMT

Thanks for the inputs. They are big help now that I have seen the set_parms output as well.

Thanks,
Sanjay