Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) (06/19/91)
Hi. Again, I might have a very stupid question: I would like to change the name of my NeXT from localhost to something else. I thought the rc.boot script would be the proper place to do so, but in there stands that it is NOT the place to change the hostname. So I tried to find out how to do it with Netinfo. I was not able to make the correct settings, instead all crashed and I had to recover my Netinfo base. My problem seems to be that I do not have the Developer Library, and I also have only the 105MB version yet (in a week I'll get another 670MB and the extended release... Up to now I was not able to change the hostname properly. Ok, it works after booting, but I will change the hostname PROPERLY. What do I have to change, and how? Then I remember that there was a posting on how to make the NeXT show a name during the boot-process. How was that done? And where is the login-window tiff-file, so that I could change that as well? Any help would be more than appreciated, Gerhard. PS: Remember, I have my NeXT now for 2 weeks and I know not too much of it yet. G. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ | Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [Geb. 02/21/68] | | inhouse: gimli!gemoe uucp: ...(unido!)uniol!gmoeller | |DOMAIN: gerhard.moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de | |BITNET: gmoeller%arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de@DOLUNI1 (106495@DOLUNI1) | +-----------------------> the medium is the message <-----------------------+
louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) (06/19/91)
In article <5925@uniol.UUCP> Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes: >Again, I might have a very stupid question: >I would like to change the name of my NeXT from localhost to something >else. Use the /NextAdmin/NetManager application. It modifies the information in the /etc/hostconfig file using a whiz-bang user interface. Alternatively, you could just edit the file directly. louie
Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller) (06/20/91)
Hello everybody. First, I want to thank all of you who replied for your help. I still have some questions: I changed the /etc/hostconfig as everyone would do, then the "hostname" and "uuname -l" command worked properly. But I also wanted a NetInfo entry. So I changed the /:master > "localhost/local" to "myname/myname". Then I also changed the />machine>localhost:name > "localhost" to "myname" . Everything's working fine, I even got the "served by" and "served" messeges ok, also the NetManager-entry was set automatically. Now I have two questions: 1.) was that what I have done ok? 2.) Should I change the />machine>localhost:serves > "./local" entry as well? The last question is how to make the name of my machine appear in the loginwindow. I know that this is possible, I just do not know how. Editing the /usr/lib/NextStep/nextlogin.tiff has no effect at all. (As one could have expected after loooking at it. It looks different than the loginwindow actually does.) Thank you again for your help, Gerhard. -- +---------------------------< principiis obsta! >---------------------------+ | Gerhard Moeller, Teichstrasse 12, 2900 Oldenburg (FRG) [Geb. 02/21/68] | | inhouse: gimli!gemoe uucp: ...(unido!)uniol!gmoeller | |DOMAIN: gerhard.moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de | |BITNET: gmoeller%arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de@DOLUNI1 (106495@DOLUNI1) | +-----------------------> the medium is the message <-----------------------+