How to change computer name

[Duane Attaway]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Joe-Cho wrote:

> I thought changing compute name on Solaris is just changing /etc/hosts,
> but it is not simple.

It is simple!  Just do it the way init scripts do it.

Your init scripts set the hostname of your computer with the contents in 
/etc/hosts with the "hostname" command:

hostname this.is.my.domain.com

This changes the hostname for the computer; however, this does not 
automatically change the HOSTNAME environment variable in each currently 
opened shell.  New shells will inherit the the new hostname, but 
applications may still grab the old hostname from currently existing 
terminals.  Manually change this with:

export HOSTNAME=this.is.my.domain.com

...if you don't wish to restart your terminals.

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