topic Re: Wrong hostname in Operating System - HP-UX

Wrong hostname

PatRoy — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:38:35 GMT

Hi all.

I'm having a really strange problem with an HPUX 11.23 server.

For some reasons, when I type in `hostname`, it gives me the wrong hostname! It just gives me "-i". However, my /etc/rc.config.d/netconf has the proper hostname in. `uname -n` does give me the right hostname.

Has anyone seen this before?

Pat.

Re: Wrong hostname

Pete Randall — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:44:37 GMT

Perhaps someone entered "hostname -i" in an attempt to query the hostname?

I would run "/sbin/set_parms hostname" to reset it.

Pete

Re: Wrong hostname

Basheer_2 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:47:53 GMT

Hi Pat,
on my 11.11

$ ls -ls /usr/bin/hostname
32 -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 12288 Nov 14 2000 /usr/bin/hostname

$ file /usr/bin/hostname
/usr/bin/hostname: PA-RISC1.1 shared executable dynamically linked

Re: Wrong hostname

Luk Vandenbussche — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:48:23 GMT

Check also the setting in /etc/hosts

Re: Wrong hostname

Bill Hassell — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:49:28 GMT

To amplify Pete's answer, the 'someone' was root, that is, someone that knows the root password or has root privileges. The hostname command has no options so whatever is supploed after the command (by root) becomes the new hostname. You should be OK by issuing hostname with the correct name (as root).

Re: Wrong hostname

Bill Hassell — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:10:54 GMT

Re: Wrong hostname

PatRoy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:23:30 GMT

Indeed, someone had issued a 'hostname -i'

Thanks guys!
Pat