Setting Initial System Information

The first time your system boots following the installation of HP-UX, a special set-up script (called /sbin/set_parms) runs to prompt you for values of certain parameters that your system needs to know about in order to define its place in the world. Most of these values relate to networking. For example:

The system’s host name
The system’s Internet Protocol (IP) Address
The subnet mask for the computer

Non-networking system values that are needed include:

The timezone value for the system
Font information
Whether or not the system has a graphics console

The system values that are set by set_parms represent things that do not often change (if ever). Therefore, once set_parms has automatically run once, it will not automatically run again. If you should happen to need to move the system, or do something that requires you to change the values for the system parameters:

Run the script:

/sbin/set_parms option

where option is one of the following:

Table 5-4 System Parameters

`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 256. 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.
`font_c-s`	Network font service. This allows you to configure your workstation to be a font client or server. As a font client, your workstation uses the font files on a network server rather than using the fonts on its own hard disk, thus saving disk space. System RAM usage is reduced for font clients, but increased for font servers.

Setting Initial System Information

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