Subject: Re: SOLARIS2.2 : ifconf problems with full qual

From: [email-masked] (Richard Elling)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 22:48:00 GMT

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (Guy Gagnon) writes:
>I installed Solaris 2.2 on a server (IPX for tests).
>At the first configuration of teh machine
>When i use a hostname full qualified like
>"toto.belzibuth.qc.ca" , the le0 (ethernet)
>interface answer well... i can ping...

Is this not in the FAQ yet?  Then again I haven't seen the FAQ for a while...
You need to fix the file /etc/init.d/rootusr.  You will see a line that says:
	/sbin/ifconfig $1 $addr netmask + \
change it to:
	/sbin/ifconfig $1 "$addr" netmask + \

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 Richard Elling, Manager of Network Support, Engineering Administration
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