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hey ya, fellow sysadmins.

i started playing around with the open-source network backup software bacula on a sun fire v240 and a sun storedge lto 2v tape drive, which is actually a hp ultrium 448 drive rebranded by sun. i haven’t seen the application in action yet, because i’m currently lost in configuration. what really stunnes me is the huge amount of well-written documentation - quite unusual for open-source products. huge kudos to the bacula-crew for that!

i’ll keep you updated if the app itself turns out to be as good as its documentation.

people new to networking under solaris seem to wonder how to change the ip-address or hostname of a machine regularly. so here you go, this is the list of files to change when updating your network information.

for ip changes edit the following files:

• /etc/hosts
• /etc/defaultrouter
• /etc/netmasks
• /etc/inet/ipnodes (if it contains the accordant entry for your hostname)

to change the hostname of a solaris system edit these files:

• /etc/hosts
• /etc/nodename
• /etc/hostname.xyz (xyz stands for the corresponding network interface, such as bge0)
• /etc/net/ticlts/hosts (obsolete in Solaris 10)
• /etc/net/ticots/hosts (obsolete in Solaris 10)
• /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts (obsolete in Solaris 10)
• /etc/inet/ipnodes (if it contains the accordant entry for your old hostname)

you do not need to reboot your machine to apply this new information (this is unix, remember? ;)) - all you need is to restart the adequate service using the service management facility (smf):

svcadm restart svc:/milestone/network:default