UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi Guys,

I have an old unix server (HP 9000) which we just use to view history of data. which has a private IP of 121.1.1.n. At present we change our IP addresses (subnetting) and I have to change the old IP of UNIX to 10.10.4.n.

Could someone help me how to do or what the command is?

thanks a lot.

Henry

see if you have the command 'ifconfig' if you do, then you use that to change your ip.

however these settings will be lost upon reboot. i dont know where your system saves its IP settings. someone here knows but if you need to do it NOW and cant wait for the way to do it properly, you can write a small shell script invoking ifconfig to change your ip address.

have the script run very late in the boot proccess to override the systems (properly) set ip address.

Try the 'sam' command. This will bring up a menu (or GUI if your display is set). You should be able to navigate through the menu (or GUI) without much explanation. Update the netcard info there and exit, this will save the info to the correct files so you will not have to redo anything if the system is rebooted.

Of the top of my head, I can't recall which file(s) get updated.

The file it updates is /etc/rc.config.d/netconf, but if you are unfamiliar with it, sam is your best bet. This file also contains route information.

Another way to do is

set_parms ip_address