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- From: gel@sys.uea.ac.uk (Gareth Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: How do you rename a DMS client?
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:38:52 GMT
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- ccbjs@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
-
- >But how do we change it's hostname so that DMS refers to it by that name
- >also? (I would prefer not to build a new client and then modify all it's
- >configuration files...) Can we simply rename the /dlclient0/client.root
- >directory and edit some magic DMS files?
- >Can anyone suggest a recipe we should follow?
-
- I think the name that DMS associates with a client machine is immaterial.
- The name that a client machine uses after booting is the one set at the
- top of the /etc/rc.local file and this doesn't need to be the same as the
- DMS name.
-
- For instance, our machines have full internet names, ie. 'fred.sys.uea.ac.uk'.
- DMS cannot cope with a host name of this form. So we set the DMS name to
- 'fred'. After the installation process is complete we edit /etc/rc.local to
- specify the full name. We then edit /etc/hosts (or YP) and add the full name
- as the main machine name and make fred an alias. This works fine!!
-
- So once fred has booted it can call itself anything it likes so long as the
- new name is registered in /etc/hosts (or YP/Bind etc. .). It will however
- probably be necessary to keep the old name as an alias of the new.
-
- Hope this is useful.
-
- Gareth Lee.
-