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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  8 Apr 2014 00:05:06 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Newby Question on setting hostname
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> I did that on my 9atom system (9fat: to mount the fat file system on
> /n/9fat and then edited plan9.ini) but that didn't have any effect. :(
> It takes /dev/sysname (which is an IP address). I manually edited
> /rc/bin/termrc to get a valid sysname.

ideally, put the following in one of /lib/ndb/local's database files (or local itself)

sys=<sys> ether=<ea> ip=<ip>

the system will figure it out.  ipconfig can set sysname if dhcp'd.

- erik