Thursday, June 28, 2012

How to change hostname in Solaris 10

Step 1: Update /etc/hosts
192.168.0.6 newsolaris

Step 2: Change /etc/nodename
echo "newsolaris" > /etc/nodename

Step 3: Update /etc/hostname.
echo "newsolaris" > /etc/hostname.e1000g0

Step 4: Set the hostname using uname
uname -S newsolaris

Step 5: Reboot the system
reboot