[SunRescue] ARGH! Round 2

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

I'll probably get flack for this, because some purists think it's 
excessive - however, I've done this literally hundreds of times 
without failure; it's my standard procedure when 'recommissioning' 
a box --

root-klaatu /% sys-unconfig

                         WARNING

This program will unconfigure your system.  It will cause it
to revert to a "blank" system - it will not have a name or know
about other systems or networks.

This program will also halt the system.

Do you want to continue (y/n) ? n
Aborted
root-klaatu /%

of course, you'd want to type a y.

that puts you through about a dozen questions after rebooting, 
setting the language, IP address, netmask, nameservice, data and 
time, etc.

takes all of about 90 seconds when i'm distracted, about 30 if not. 
it's the only way to fly.

At 08:12 PM 12/3/00, you wrote:
> >
> > /etc/hostname.hme0 should have a hostname in it
>
>Yepper name is tatung
>
> > /etc/hosts should have the same hostname, along with an IP 
> address.
>
>Yepper has 192.168.0.200 tatung
>
> >
> > Basically the system takes the IP from /etc/hostname.hme0, 
> looks that
> > up in /etc/hosts, and assigns the IP address thats in 
> /etc/hosts.
> >
>Now a new twist. I can do nslookups but cannot get netscape or ftp 
>to
>connect via hostname only IP.
>
>ARGH
>
>Mike N
>
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Paul Theodoropoulos   paul at atgi.net
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Advanced Telcom Group, Inc.
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