[geeks] [rescue] Solaris 10 puzzle

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Wed Feb 23 16:19:35 CST 2005


Mike Ekholm wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:42:12PM -0800, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>Nevertheless, SOMETHING on this system is repeatedly resetting the 
>>system's hostname to '-s' at intervals of a few minutes, and I can't 
>>figure out what it is.  I've even tried grepping the entire system for 
>>stray 'uname -S' calls.  No joy.  I'm fresh out of ideas.
> 
> Have you gone through /lib/svc/method?

Yup, and didn't see anything in there.  I suspect it's some buried 
syscall in the Gnome Desktop stuff, possibly interacting badly with 
something unique to my setup and/or environment.


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