Solaris

Because you didn't ask useradd to do it. Hopefully not. That's expained in the useradd manual page:

Code:

useradd -b /export/home -c "Javier Maldonaldo" -m -s /bin/xxx n2jkw

with xxx being ksh or bash or whatever shell but not sh on Solaris 10 and older otherwise you will be frustrated by the shell lack of features.

Thanks for the information. Do I just change the shell in the passwd file?
replasing sh with ksh?

Javier Maldonado

Note: No wonder I do not have man pages and other stuff....

The shell (sh) was put there by the useradd command...

How do I change the hostname from noname to something else?

A safer method would be that one:

Code:

# passwd -e n2jkw    
Old shell: /bin/sh
New shell: /bin/ksh
passwd: password information changed for n2jkw

Then you should install them. It doesn't make sense administering a system without having the manual pages available.
I know, that's the reason why I advised you to modify that setting (twice).

As you know I am learning this thing....I do appreciate all the advice.

Having said that, I was under the impression that the shell would do that, but I am not sure if changing the PATH would do it....

Thanks

Javier Maldonado

All my books assume that the system is installed and running....none of my books start with installation and options to customize the system.....

An example .... the hostname.....I missed to name my system during install...I can do:

#hostname Solaris-10

Now when the system re-start...the boot config have not change? is this correct?

Javier

"do that", "do it" ? I'm afraid I have no idea about what you are referring to ...
Mixed case names are accepted but I wouldn't advice using them. You might be hit one day by some bug. Better to stick with the all lowercase names Unix tradition.
Yes. The hostname command is transient. Use /etc/nodename for something permanent.

I was refering to the man pages....

Thanks a lot for all the info. I think I am going to bed now...

Time sure flies.....

Javier Maldonado

*UPDATE*

Well, I desided after all the help here and all the local advice in school to install OpenSolaris in the machine...

Not to not-appreciate all the help in this forum. To all of you that helped...thanks a million.

Installation is way smoother than solaris 10 and I have been able to get at least 2 books specific to OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris Bible and Pro OpenSolaris from amazon.

After installation and taking a terminal trip into the system I realized that there were lots of settings that were wrong for the system I have .

A great number of students and faculty told me to stick with Ubuntu or other Linux flavor, but I still want to learn from a System V based OS.

I have been busy with Java classes now and rarely log into the OpenSolaris platform even when I have NetBeans installed in it because I started with NetBeans on a Win XP tiny laptop I take to school....

Any other ideas or suggestions will be well received from anybody on this forum...

Thanks to all...
Javier Maldonadol