hostname more than 8 characters

[vaibhav_1]

I want to have my hostname of more than 8 character . In hostname I get correct hostname.
But in Uname -a command it gives on 8 characters. Is there is any way we can get the
complete hostname in "uname" command .

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

You can't have it.

Check out /usr/include/sys/utsname.h where UTSLEN is limited to 9. setuname() call
sets the nodename with the size being "namelen" equal to UTSLEN -1 = 8.

-Sri

[Patrick Wallek]

That is an HP-UX limitation, you can't work with more than 8 characters hostnames and have everything work correctly:

Here's a couple of other threads on the subject:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x2db614a24fd1d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0xeecad06ed8c8d4118fef0090279cd0f9!1,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,11866,0x5b6137f45ef7d4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Vaibhav,
No NO NO. don't do it. You are asking for lots of trouble and grief.

Sachin

[John Bolene]

There is lots you can do in 8 chars to describe the system and keep it unique in your organization.

We use 2 chars for country code, 3 chars for system type (dfs - data file server, xts - xterm server, etc) and 3 chars for a number.