Hostname w/o the domain.com

[csutton]

Hi everyone,

I have one of our AIX boxes resolving to a Windows DNS server. When I do a who, it is returning the correct hostname and domain name. I would prefer it simply display the hostname, leaving off the domain.com part of it.

Any ideas or help?? We are using AIX 4.3.3

Thank you
Chris

 

[GFitzG]

You could get AIX to resolve it's own host name locally by specifying it in /etc/hosts AND setting the name resolution to check /etc/hosts before the Berkley Internet Name Daemon (BIND - i.e. before DNS lookup).
This is done by simply creating a file called /etc/netsvc.conf containing the one line:
hosts=local,bind
or
hosts=local,bind4

But beware of "other" IP addresses in /etc/hosts - these will be resolved according to the /etc/hosts definition before the DNS resolution.

Hope this helps...

 

[csutton]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I do not want it to resolve its own hostname, but any connection should return simply the hostname part of the computer, not the fully qualified domain name. Specifically, when I do a WHO.

We have a utility that gets the hostname, but cannot be modified to chop off everything after the period.

Thanks.