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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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hostconfig — Configure a System's Host Parameters

Synopsis

/usr/bin/hostconfig -p protocol [-d][-h][-n][-v][-i interface]
  [-f hostname]

Description

Use the hostconfig command to acquire a system's host parameters and set these parameters on a system. The hostconfig command uses the argument to the required -p option to select which protocol to use. Different protocols can set different host parameters. Currently, only one protocol (bootparams) is defined.

Note

At the time this section was written, the hostconfig command did not work on the Solaris 8 release. The examples are from a Solaris 7 system.

Options

-d Enable debug output.
-f hostname Run the protocol as if this machine were named hostname.
-h Echo the received hostname to standard ...
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