Different hostname & uname -a

[SKR_1]

Hi,

I have to make hostname of 10 characters.
hostname is coming ok.

hostname hpprodbl03

When giving uname -a, different output is coming for hostname/nodename. It's limited to eight char.

HP-UX hpprodbl B.11.23 U ia64 0467147311 unlimited-user license

Please help me out to make nodename to 10 characters also.

Thanks

SKR

[Dennis Handly]

>Please help me out to make nodename to 10 characters also.

You don't want to do that. That change would require you to recompile any application that calls the uname(2) system call.

There is a special product you can install on 11.31 to do that. I'm not sure if it is there on 11.23??

[Dennis Handly]

Also on 11.31, you will have to get the latest Aries and dld patches to handle nodename > 8 characters.

[sen_ux]

What is your OE, with update.?
By default uname supports 8 bytes.
You may need to configure for supporting more than 8 bytes..

# man uname

Thanks
SEN

[Ganesan R]

Hi SKR,

Refer these threads..

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1315555

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1238406513253+28353475&threadId=1246964

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

http://software.hp.com does have a depot that will permit hostname of more than 8 characters.

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=NodeHostNameXpnd

I do not recommend it. HP-UX works well with 8 character hostname. Do you really want to do the extra typing?

SEP

[T G Manikandan]

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=NodeHostNameXpnd

[SKR_1]

Thanks to all of you