[Sunhelp] hostnames

[Mike Gracy (Ghost Rider)]

hpux=broke just like their automounter

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:GHOSTRIDER at LISTSERV.XUMA.COM]On Behalf Of Dale Ghent
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:03 AM
To: GHOSTRIDER at LISTSERV.XUMA.COM
Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] hostnames


On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Kenny Felmly wrote:

| I was wondering of all of you Sun gurus, what is your thought about having
| hostnames longer than 8 characters?  In the HP side, if you set the
hostname
| to more than 8 characters, then a "uname -a" returns a hostname of
| "unknown".  As you might expect, licensing issues arise with a hostname of
| unknown as well as system tools don't work.

It has always worked fine on Solaris...

[daleg at lithium]~>uname -a
SunOS lithium.elemental.org 5.8 Generic_108528-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

/dale

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