topic Re: hostname in Operating System - HP-UX

hostname

Phil Croome_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:04:46 GMT

Can anyone tell me where the command 'hostname' gets its information from. When I use this command it currently returns
'-a' this has only just started happening so I assume someone has changed something somewhere.

Thanks,
Phil

Re: hostname

harry d brown jr — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:09:36 GMT

just type in

hostname HOSTNAMEHERE

to correct it

live free or die
harry

Re: hostname

Deepak Extross — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:14:23 GMT

Sounds like someone has done a "hostname -s -a".
This someone had to have root permissions for this to work :-)

Re: hostname

Jon Mattatall — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:15:43 GMT

Someone has confused the commands "hostname", which can be used to set the hostname, and "uname -a", which gives a list of values (servername, OS, Model string, etc.).

They've typed "hostname -a" and set the hostname TO -a.

man hostname, man uname for more....

Jon

Re: hostname

Rainer von Bongartz — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:16:16 GMT

Phil,

probably you mixed the commands hostname and uname .

uname -a
will give the the relevant information for yout host.

hostname will give the hostname only

BUT:

hostname -a
will set the hostname to '-a' which obviosly happened to you system.

Regards
Rainer

Re: hostname

Phil Croome_1 — Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:18:34 GMT

Thanks for all the quick responses.
I didn't realise it was as simple as that!