Erik,

Thanks!!  You are not the first one to ask about /etc/nodename
and scripts.  I think that we should probably kept it around in
some form too.

Thanks,

John

On 05/10/10 05:08 AM, Erik Nordmark wrote:
On 05/ 6/10 03:17 PM, John Fischer wrote:
All,

Attached is the first revision of the System Configuration SMF service
nodename
design document.

Comments/Questions welcomed.

We currently document the existence of /etc/nodename in nodename(4).

Thus it wouldn't be unreasonable for a customer to have developed scripts which write the nodename to /etc/nodename instead of using uname -S.

What happens if such scripts are run in the new world?

Would it be helpful to provide a read-only /etc/nodename which contains just a comment along the lines of:
# This file has been obsoleted. Use uname(1m) to set and get the nodename

That way such a script would at least fail, instead of silently continuing without updating the nodename.

   Erik

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