Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a System
Making Adjustments
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/sbin/set_parms is automatically run when you first boot the system.
To enter the appropriate set_parms dialog screen to manually add or
modify information after booting, log in as superuser and specify
set_parms option
option is one of the keywords in Table 3-5. You will be prompted for the
appropriate data.
Table 3-5 set_parms Options
option Description
hostname Your unique system name. This host name must be
eight or fewer characters long, contain only
alphabetic characters, numbers, underscores, or
dashes, and must start with an alphabetic
character.
ip_address Internet protocol address. If networking is installed,
this is an address with four numeric components,
each of which is separated by a period with each
number between 0 and 255. An example of an IP
address is: 255.32.3.10. If you do not have
networking installed, you will not be prompted for
the IP address.
timezone The time zone where your system is located.
addl_netwrk Additional network parameters. These allow you to
configure additional network parameters, such as
the subnetwork mask, network gateway, network
gateway IP address, local domain name, Domain
Name System (DNS) server host name, DNS server
IP address and Network Information Service
domain name.