How to modify the Hostname!

[q tang]

First I have used Ignite-UX to make a bootable backup tape for the whole system!
Second I installation another machine use such tape at the booting stage and without interactive!
So to avoiding the conflict, I need to modify the Hostname and IP address for the second mechine! How can I do?

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

#set_parms ip
#set_parms hostanme
will do (ofcourse in the second machine)

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

#set_parms ip
#set_parms hostanme

Will do great.

Robert-Jan.

[kish_1]

you can directly edit following file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf , but always suggest set_parms

[Vicente Sanchez_3]

Hi,

set_parms ip
set_parms hostname

regards, Vicente.

[Pete Randall]

For what it's worth, set_parms uses the syntax "set_parms ip_address" for changing the ip, not "set_parms ip".

Pete

[Ravi_8]

Hi, pete

#set_parms ip
#set_parms ip_address

both points to the same

[Pete Randall]

I guess I'm way too literal. Thanks for the tip.

Pete

[Mark Blonde]

In my experience set_parms has caused problems when changing the hostname. Upon reboot, the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file had been corrupted. Maybe I was just unlucky, but since then I've been modifying the necessary files where the hostname is referenced(/etc/hosts, /etc/rc.config/netconf, /var/adm/inetd.sec sendmail.cw files etc..) manually.

[rick jones]

indeed, /sbin/set_parms hostname is the way to go, and has worked just fine for me on many occacions. particularly after someone has hand-edited, some, but not enough of the config files :) for exmaple, when swinstall will not work any longer...

another consideration, instead of using a recovery tape features of Ignite/UX, you might consider making a "golden image" instead and installing via that golden image - you then get the option of specifying system id info like name and IP just like it was a fresh install - just that now the fresh install is everything you've already installed on the system from which you have made the golden image.

another thing to check if you are using the recovery tape is that the interface config files in /etc/rc.config.d do not have hard-coded MAC addresses in them - duplicate MACs are just as bad (maybe worse) as duplicate IPs.

[Oleg Zieaev_1]

Hello.

When you use ignite tape from system A on system B as a boot source, you have ability to specify new network information like IP, hostname etc.

Hope this helps.
0leg