How do you rename a DMS client?

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2 total messages Started by ccbjs Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:49

#7262

Author: ccbjs
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:49

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We are trying to change the hostnames and IP addresses of a number of DMS
clients running Ultrix 4.3.

From the FAQ (and experience) we know how to change a client's IP address.

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?

Thanks for your time, I will summarise.
Bevin Steer.
PS I have received only one reply to my "Can we have more than 2 swap
partitions" question...I have not yet had time to investigate and
summarise it....but will do so! :-(
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Re: How do you rename a DMS client?

#7300

Author: Gareth Lee
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:38

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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.

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