Re: [9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname

[Lee Fallat <ircsurfer33@gmail.com>]

Hey,

Put sysname=yourhostname in the plan9.ini file so you don't have to do
the echo every time. I was surprised it was not mentioned in the
plan9.ini (8) man page. I had to do a web search in order to find out
about it.

Enjoy,

Lee

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Daryl M <glenda@mc2research.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I spent time this weekend experimenting with, and learning about,
> configuring my Plan9 machine as a simple,
> DHCP client, terminal.  Networking now seems to work reliably: DNS is
> resolving names, I can ping machines
> locally and across the internet by both name and IP address.  I can also
> connect to sources at bell labs and
> browse them.  Timezone has been set and I even created another user though I
> am not yet happy with the
> results so have more to learn in that area.
>
> Now, I want to set the machine's name.  From the Plan9 Wiki and searching
> through the 9fans archives I now know:
>           1) Editing /rc/bin/termrc to replace the default name, gnot, with
> my machine's name is "not the right way".
>           2) A post from earlier this year just said to edit /lib/ndb/local
> and that there were plenty of examples.
>         In reality, the only examples are for machines with static IP
> addresses.
>           3) A post from 2007 said to add an entry to /lib/ndb/local of the
> form:
>           sys=<machinename>    ether=<MACaddress>
>         Replacing <machinename> with the desired name of my machine and
> replacing <MACaddress>
>         with that machine's MAC address.  This works    fine, but it could
> get a bit unwieldy for configuring large
>         numbers of machines.
>           4) Another post said to just
>           echo -n <machinename> > /dev/sysname
>         in /rc/bin/termrc.local.  I tested it and it also works fine and
> seems to be the easiest.
>
> My question is: What is the REAL preferred method for setting the machine
> name?  #1, #3, #4, or something else?
>
> Thank you,
> Daryl M
>
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