From: Gerard Henry (Gerard.Henry@cmi.univ-mrs.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 02:47:46 EST
thanks for all responses:
Alan Pae <turonaeda@yahoo.com>
Alex Stade <alex@trdlnk.com>
"Josh N/A" <endlessvortex@hotmail.com>
and Richard Teer from Rite Group
all says i have to recreate file /etc/nodename, so i do, but i want to
understand why it was nowhere. Perhaps this i s because i use
sys-unconfig to swith betwwen dhcp and statis ip?
josh gives me this doc, very interesting:
> I would suggest creating /etc/nodename and putting the hostname of the
> system into it. Usually Solaris creates this by default, I'm not
sure why
> it didn't. Have it owned by the "root" user and group and make the
> permissions 444.
>
> Sun recommends the same solution on sunsolve.sun.com . Here is part
of the
> article FAQ3477):
>
>
> 2. For Solaris 8 systems.
>
> Edit the file /etc/init.d/network and change the line that reads
>
> "dhcp") hostname=`/sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname` ;;
>
> to
>
> # "dhcp") hostname=`/sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname` ;;
> "dhcp") hostname=`shcat /etc/nodename` ;;
>
> Then, edit the file /etc/init.d/inetsvc and change the line that reads
>
> hostname=`/sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname`
>
> to
>
> # hostname=`/sbin/dhcpinfo Hostname`
> hostname=`/usr/bin/cat /etc/nodename`
>
> Save the files and reboot the system. The system's hostname will be the
> entry in the file /etc/nodename.
my original post:
>at home i have sun ultra1 under solaris 9, and i use a smc Barricade
>Ethernet/USB ADSL Modem, plus ethernet hub for a lan. As this
equipment is
>dhcp server, i configure my sun as a dhcp client. I precise it works
well
>for linux pc or other.
>Under solaris, you have hostname "unknown" if you configure it as
dhcp.
>There is a web page,
>http://www.rite-group.com/consulting/solaris_dhcp.html, with a script
>set_hostname to correct it. But this script make the assumption of
>/etc/nodename. But when using dhcp, solaris don't create this file. So
i do
>a workaround (found on the web) i reconfigure my sun to have a static
ip
>adress, but in the range of dhcp server. And it works.
-- Gerard HENRY LATP UMR 6632 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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