configuring network

naw_deepak · October 15, 2008, 7:46pm

Hello,

I was trying to assign IP or Hostname to the system, but when I open any of the files:
/etc/hosts
/etc/inet/ipnodes
the files open in read-only mode. Thus, I can't edit it. I am doing this under root. What is the problem and how to get rid? Any suggestion?

Smiling_Dragon · October 15, 2008, 10:43pm

You can either switch the files to read-write via chmod (remember to set them back to read-only when you are finished) or edit them in vi and save with the :w! command (the '!' character forces it to override the read-only mode).

incredible · October 16, 2008, 7:16am

ls -l /etc/hosts , eg will show you its permission.
you'll have to change it. could be that the system was hardened.

naw_deepak · October 16, 2008, 3:48pm

Thanks for help,
But how to start service to activate the change?

DukeNuke2 · October 16, 2008, 4:45pm

is it solaris 10? if so:

# svcadm restart network/physical

naw_deepak · October 16, 2008, 5:02pm

Thanks for reply, but it didn't work. When I run the command " hostname "
the output still comes as before " unknown ".
I tried many ways to assign hostname but failed. Even I am not able to assign IP address , I am trying to edit /etc/hosts or /etc/hostname.pcn0 to set, but unable.
Can anyone help?

naw_deepak · October 16, 2008, 5:02pm

Yeah, It is Solaris 10

DukeNuke2 · October 16, 2008, 5:08pm

edit "/etc/nodename"

jlliagre · October 16, 2008, 5:10pm

Not in that case. The default permissions for /etc/[inet]/hosts is read-only even for the owner (root). Of course, root doesn't need to have the write permission to write anyway with vi (:w!).