>>> On 3/10/2016 at 02:47 PM, Ron Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are being tasked with changing the dns domain name portion of a machine's > host name. > > That is, change foo.baldor.com to foo.baldor.abb.com. > > > Is this possible without scheduling an outage of our Linux farm? I don't see why not. For people trying to access your systems, just the change in your corporate DNS servers will be sufficient. For what the system thinks its name is, there's only a few places where this is stored. /etc/hosts /etc/aliases.db /etc/resolv.conf /etc/HOSTNAME Now, changing it with YaST is the simplest method, but I can't say for sure that when you save the changes that YaST won't restart the network. So, start with a test system that can tolerate such a possible interruption to see what happens. YaST -> Network Devices -> Network Settings or just simply "yast lan" then select the "Hostname/DNS" tab. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
