hostconfig process

[Jerry LeVan]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Dan Shoop wrote:

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> On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:06:09 -0700
>>> From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin at mac.com>
>>> Subject: Re: hostconfig process
>>> To: omniadmin OSX <macosx-admin at omnigroup.com>
>>> Message-ID: <FAED86C8-BF06-46FF-A6EA-8A9347EC13A2 at mac.com>
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>>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 11:11 , R.L. Grigg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Theres a remote OSX 10.4.10 system that I administor by ssh, and
>>>> after I modify /etc/hostconfig, what process do I need to kill -HUP
>>>> to have it read up the new settings so I dont have to reboot it
>>>
>>> You need to reboot to have this file re-scanned.  In essence, it
>>> provides a lot of basic settings for the system (processes that may
>>> run only at boot-time, or long-lived processes that have nothing to
>>> do with the boot process) to use, and without restarting the whole
>>> system, you won't get what you want.
>>>
>>> This may have changed in recent releases, but AFAIK, this is the
>>> still the case.
>>>
>>> Justin
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried "hostname -s newnane" (and setting the host name in  
>> hostconfig).
>
> Have you read hostconfig???
>
> There's a lot more it defines than hostname. It defines global  
> variables that are use by SystemStartup items and many other things.
>
> Also hostname set like that won't stick, and can change even while  
> the system is booted, because it's just plain the wrong way to set it.
>
>
> -dhan

Chill out dan, try to focus on solutions rather than criticisms...

[mbp:~]$ uname -a
Darwin mbp 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00  
PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
[mbp:~]$ ping mbp
PING mbp (192.168.1.80): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.80: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.80: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.093 ms
^C
--- mbp ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.052/0.072/0.093/0.021 ms
[mbp:~]$ sudo hostname jack
[mbp:~]$ uname -a
Darwin jack 8.10.1 Darwin Kernel Version 8.10.1: Wed May 23 16:33:00  
PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.22.5~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
[mbp:~]$ ping jack
PING jack (192.168.1.80): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.80: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.80: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.092 ms
^C
--- jack ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.046/0.069/0.092/0.023 ms
[mbp:~]$ sudo hostname mbp

Jerry