Hey, Put sysname=yourhostname in the plan9.ini file so you don't have to do the echo every time. I was surprised it was not mentioned in the plan9.ini (8) man page. I had to do a web search in order to find out about it.
Enjoy, Lee On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Daryl M <gle...@mc2research.org> wrote: > Greetings, > > I spent time this weekend experimenting with, and learning about, > configuring my Plan9 machine as a simple, > DHCP client, terminal. Networking now seems to work reliably: DNS is > resolving names, I can ping machines > locally and across the internet by both name and IP address. I can also > connect to sources at bell labs and > browse them. Timezone has been set and I even created another user though I > am not yet happy with the > results so have more to learn in that area. > > Now, I want to set the machine's name. From the Plan9 Wiki and searching > through the 9fans archives I now know: > 1) Editing /rc/bin/termrc to replace the default name, gnot, with > my machine's name is "not the right way". > 2) A post from earlier this year just said to edit /lib/ndb/local > and that there were plenty of examples. > In reality, the only examples are for machines with static IP > addresses. > 3) A post from 2007 said to add an entry to /lib/ndb/local of the > form: > sys=<machinename> ether=<MACaddress> > Replacing <machinename> with the desired name of my machine and > replacing <MACaddress> > with that machine's MAC address. This works fine, but it could > get a bit unwieldy for configuring large > numbers of machines. > 4) Another post said to just > echo -n <machinename> > /dev/sysname > in /rc/bin/termrc.local. I tested it and it also works fine and > seems to be the easiest. > > My question is: What is the REAL preferred method for setting the machine > name? #1, #3, #4, or something else? > > Thank you, > Daryl M > > > >
