[SunRescue] Dumb newbie question :-)

[Loomis, Rip]

David--
If the system is booted up, possibly the
easiest way is to do a sys-unconfig as
root and shutdown.  When you start it up
again it asks for a new root password,
hostname, and IP address.

The rest of the answer if you want to do
it by hand:
1.  /etc/hosts - Ensure this has the fully qualified
    hostname, the short hostname, and the IP address:
    "209.70.136.211  bear    bear.cist-east.saic.com"
    (Long hostname really recommended to stop
     sendmail whining and for general good practice)
2.  /etc/hostname.IFNAME (usually hostname.le0 or
    hostname.hme0) - Put the hostname that corresponds
    to the desired entry from /etc/hosts.
3.  /etc/nodename - You don't really need to
    change this, but this will be the name the
    system *thinks* it has...so I usually
    try to make it the same as at least one
    of the hostnames for the system.
4.  As long as you're there, if you have a static
    route then go ahead and configure /etc/defaultrouter
    with the IP address of the router, and then touch
    /etc/notrouter.  That will keep you from running a
    useless routing daemon, for the common case of
    a single static default route.

If you want to see how Solaris does all this,
check out /etc/init.d/rootusr.  For the case where
you haven't changed the hostname but the IP address
has changed, all you need to do is modify /etc/hosts
and reboot (or modify /etc/hosts and do an ifconfig
by hand...)

Hope this helps--

Rip Loomis		Voice Number: (410) 953-6874
--------------------------------------------------------
Senior Security Engineer
Center for Information Security Technology
Science Applications International Corporation
http://www.cist.saic.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cantrell [mailto:david at cantrell.org.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 4:11 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [SunRescue] Dumb newbie question :-)
> 
> 
> Quick question for you all.  Where do I assign all the right 
> magic numbers
> to get a Solaris box on the network?
> 
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