Cathy Zhou wrote: > Darren Reed wrote: > >> If I'm ssh'd into a system and it has only one NIC (or the >> NIC that I want to rename has the IP# of the target of my >> ssh session), how do I do it? (Note that I can't unplumb >> the NIC I want to rename.) >> >> Is there a magic file I can put some commands into so that >> when the box reboots, it can rename /etc/hostname.hme0 >> to /etc/hostname.bugbear0 and also execute dladm to >> rename hme0 to bugbear0 too? >> > Today, there is no such mechanism. One can only rename a link when it > is not used.
At the very least, there's some important opinion fodder here for the case. >> It seems I can: >> 1) edit /etc/dladm/datalink.conf, changing "name=string,hme0" >> to "name=string,bugbear0" >> 2) rename /etc/hostname.hme0 to /etc/hostname.bugbear0 >> 3) reboot >> >> This will work? > > > No, that file is private, and chaning it directly is not a supported > approach. But will it work? (I'm not interested in the supported bit.) Darren
