On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:38:25PM -0400, Blake wrote:
> Hold on a minute! :) I'm NOT recommending the use of sys-unconfig simply
> to change the hostname. The command does far more than that, and is
> probably overkill and dangerous to use in some situations.
The problem is, as a look at the howto will show, is that there are many
places that can be missed. For example, dumpadm doesn't create the new
crash directory, so if I followed the howto then I don't get dumps any
more. In many environments, changing the hostname may well also imply a
change of domain name, and this howto doesn't cover IPv6 either.
Changing the hostname with sys-unconfig is safer, particularly so for
the user that needs a howto in the first place. I know that nobody here
likely uses it, because it is slight overkill, but we aren't the target
audience.
Simply put, until we can write a howto that is 100% feature complete and
doesn't contain any phrases like "not really sure about this" then we do
the community a disservice by recommending anything other than
sys-unconfig which does the job perfectly.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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