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.


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