Hostname on HPUX 10.20

[Cristian van Ee_1]

I have changed the hostname for the system in "/etc/rc.config.d/netconfig" and "/etc/hosts".

Now when i type "uname -a" after rebooting the system, I get an unknown hostname!

Dit i forget something?

Cristian van Ee,
Systems Administrator
Tech Data Netherlands.

[Andy Monks]

best way to change the hostname is with

set_parms hostname

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

look at /etc/rc.log if there are any error messages related to setting hostname.
Possibly you have made a syntax error in your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf.

[Rick Garland]

Also check /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file.

[John Palmer]

I assume that you meant '/etc/rc.config.d/netconf'.

Is the new name accepted by the hostname command when you type it in
'hostname ' then 'hostname'?

Remember that the name changed by the hostname command is not the same name as reported by 'uname'. That is set with 'uname -S '

See man hostname and man uname.

The name in netconf should be set for both hostname and uname however.

[Rick Garland]

As a side thought, is this system in DNS? If so, also make sure you can resolve correctly by hostname and IP address. Look at the nsswitch.conf file

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

A long shot, but did you confine the string chosen to 8-characters or less in all the aforementioned files?

...JRF...