[rescue] Solaris 10 puzzle

[Mike Parson]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:42:12PM -0800, Phil Stracchino wrote:
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> Nevertheless, SOMETHING on this system is repeatedly resetting the 
> system's hostname to '-s' at intervals of a few minutes, and I can't 
> figure out what it is.  I've even tried grepping the entire system for 
> stray 'uname -S' calls.  No joy.  I'm fresh out of ideas.

Look for calls to `hostname -s` rather than uname.

What's PS1 set to?

I've seen people that want the hostname in their prompt put something
like `hostname -s` in PS1, but when the used sudo or su2, that suddenly
got run as root and changed the hostname to -s.

At least with bash, there's a built-in sequence for getting the hostname
in the prompt (\h), rather than running a command to stuff it in there,
prevents such mistakes.

> Anyone have any suggestions?  Short of adding a cron job to reset the 
> correct hostname every minute?  Between this and the fact that 10 seems 
> to have been released halfway through switching over from classic 
> /etc/init.d scripts to svcadm, and the fact that despite the murmurs 
> about Sun moving away from CDE it seems practically everything on 
> Solaris 10 almost down to the *kernel* is dependent on CDE, I'm 
> beginning to really acutely dislike Solaris 10.
> 
> (Well, OK, maybe not the kernel.  I hope.)

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org