We (not I) have adopted a new naming scheme here. I have installed a new server with one of the new names and sam is complaining about hostname not matching the nodename when I go into 'network interface cards' Sam wants me to trunkate the system name to 8 characters...
Any ideas on how to make sam happy and keep the 10 character hostname? The nodename appears to be 'unknown', as evidenced by uname -a...
Yeah, I should have mentioned that I looked through the threads and have tried setting the nodename different than the hostname as the threads suggest, but SAM still complains about it and wants to reset the hostname.
Am I out of luck and just need to do networking changes manually from now on?
The /usr/sam/lib/C/ra.ui file does not appear to have an entry that can be changed for that. There are 3 entries, but 1 is for a remote root password, etc.
Hi, The only thing I can think of of the top of my head is aliasing. Although the "we(not I)'s" may not cotton to it. ;) (or your particular setup might not allow it.) If I find anything else, I'll send it your way. Best of luck, Kel
The more I learn, the more I realize how much more I have to learn. Isn't it GREAT!
As mentioned, the hostname is restricted to 8 chars and cannot be increased without breaking several commands in HP-UX. However, the internal hostname can certainly be 8 with an alias in /etc/hosts or DNS of a much longer string. As an example, you can call your server web1 with a web server address of: verylongwebservername.domain.com and it will work just fine.
Thanks for the replies. This is what I had to do. This afternoon I decided to set the short name as the hostname and alias the long name through both /etc/hosts and DNS. For those that decided the naming scheme, the server name will be the 10 character name...
