Changing Hostname ?????

[Tony Constantine]

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

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

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

[John Palmer]

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

[Carlos Muñoz_1]

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

[bhavin asokan]

hi,


the following link may help u


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



regds,

[bhavin asokan]

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,

[Tony Constantine]

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.

[Tony Constantine]

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