[OmniOS-discuss] Change Zone Hostname

[Paul B. Henson]

> From: Dan McDonald
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 12:35 PM
>
> Did you ask this earlier and I'm seeing a duplicate?  Or did someone else ask
> this?

It does seem familiar, plus it has an old date… I believe earlier this month I saw what appeared to be some list reposts too.

> You can have /etc/nodename override the zone's name for a given zone.
> E.g. my "webserver" zone isn't hostnamed "webserver", because I have a
> different name in /etc/nodename for that zone.  You will have to reboot the
> zone, however, for the change to stick.

Just as a data point, I set up a couple of zones over the weekend, and after updating nodename and rebooting the zone, the replacement hostname worked fine.