On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 06:42:51PM -0400, Paul Gress wrote: > Thanks for your response. As always, Ive been struggling with this > problem for some time, basically I noticed it a snv86 and to make a long > story short, as soon as you post a question you discover the answer > yourself. > > Basically I needed to change the hostid, so I created a script and put > it in /etc/rc2.d/S05*****. It appears Solaris Express gets confused > (where Solaris 10 doesn't) and basis some of its operations derived from > a hostid derived from the mac address. My hostid shows up as I want it > but uname -p will show blank. When I removed the S05**** script, uname > -p worked correctly. Maybe I need to start is sooner using the > services, but I haven't yet figured it out yet.
The Solaris hostid on x64 systems is not tied to a MAC address, as elegantly outlined by Frank Hofmann: http://blogs.sun.com/ambiguous/entry/introducing_myself I'd be interested in seeing your rc2.d script that produces the side-effects to sysinfo(2) and uname. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
