On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:00:08 -0600 (Central Standard Time), Steve
Hammond <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>I realize this is not the forum, but I am up against the wall and I know some of you cross over and I'm on hold with the response center.
>
>My problem is this - I need to change the system name and hostname on my UX box. I use the hostname command and the uname -S command to reset the names. I have done this as root from the console.
>
>No problem, except when I reboot, the old name comes back in both places. What should I be doing? Do I need to set it somewhere else? I found nothing in SAM about host name.

You don't say what release of HP-UX you are on. If it is 10.X, then
you have two choices:

1.) man set_parms will tell you how to use set_parms to change all the
hostname and network-related stuff on your box. However, it won't
change any DNS information that might be hosted on the box. You have
to update your DNS tables by hand.

2.) You can edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf by hand. It's
fairly easy to figure out where to go and what to do. If you do it
this way, you will also have to go to files like /etc/hosts to
manually change the hostname there as well. (set_parms will do that
for you).

By now I'm sure the Reponse Center has answered your question, but
just in case... :)