Hostname Problem

[vselvaraj]

Hi,

In our HP servers(L1000 and A class) having HP 11.00 and 10.20, we are running Check Point Firewall. In that we changed the Hostname through SAM. But while the server is getting rebooted, the hostname reverts back to the old name.

This has happened for 3 times.
Can anyone tell why its happening?
Also how to avoid this in future?

Thanks in Advance.

[Alex Glennie]

whatch out for multiple / old copies of /etc/rc.config.d/netconf in the /etc/rc.config.d directory ?

[Marcel Boon]

Hi,

Did you tried command "/sbin/set_parms hostname" ?
This is used for permantly change the hostname.

see man hostname.

Marcel

[melvyn burnard]

Check to see if the new hostname is set in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file, as well as the /etc/hosts file, and if necessary edit these and remove any entry pointing to th eold name.
But the best way is to use the set_parms hostname utility

[Doug Wheeler_1]

I had the same problem and not even set_parms would clean it up. In my case it appeared to be a corrupt nettl log. HP support had me issue the command
netfmt -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG00 > /tmp/log

That cleared it up.

Doug