06-03-2009
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Originally Posted by
kumarmani
You can change the hostname with the help of hostname <name of server>, and place the entry in /etc/inet/hosts. Reboot is not required to reflect the name change and once you have placed the entry into hosts file its going to persistence across the reboot.
only one file is required..
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chosts
chosts(1M) System Administration Commands chosts(1M)
NAME
chosts - expand cluster names into host names
SYNOPSIS
$CLUSTER_HOME/bin/chosts name [name...]
DESCRIPTION
The chosts utility expands the arguments into a list of host names.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
name The parameter name can be a hostname or a cluster name. If name is a hostname, it is expanded to be a hostname. If name
is a cluster name, that is, an entry exists in the /etc/clusters database (or a NIS or NIS+ map), it is expanded into
the list of hosts that make up that cluster, as specified in the database. The list is typically used by programs that
wish to operate on a list of hosts.
If an entry for clusters has been made in the /etc/nisswitch.conf file, then the order of lookups is controlled by that
entry. If there is no such file or no such entry, then the nameservice look up order is implicitly nis files.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWccon |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Evolving |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
ccp(1M), cconsole(1M), cports(1M), crlogin(1M), cssh(1M), ctelnet(1M), clusters(4), attributes(5)
Sun Cluster 3.2 8 Sep 2007 chosts(1M)