[SunRescue] ARGH! Round 2

[Mike Nicewonger]

I did that sys-unconfig

It barfs about not finding the nameserver, I tell it to set the setting
anyway.

Still fubar

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Theodoropoulos" <paul at anastrophe.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] ARGH! Round 2


>
> 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.
> Santa Rosa, California
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