[SunHELP] changing hostname

[Meng, Andrew]

Hello,

If I use DHCP, do I need to create an entry in DNS before I change the
machine name from unknown to something else? Thanks a lot!

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas_Cameron at Dell.com [mailto:Thomas_Cameron at Dell.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:47 PM
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] changing hostname


sys-unconfig

Thanks,
Thomas Cameron, MCSE, MCT, CNE, RHCE
IS Engineering Manager
Dell Financial Services

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anna menshch [mailto:anna.menshch at micromuse.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunHELP] changing hostname
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need to change the hostname on one of my servers.  Would 
> changing it the
> /ets/hosts file be enoght or is there something else that I 
> need to do?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Anna
> 
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