RE: Changing hostname / IP address

We did this last year with no problems. Only changes in Informix were the sqlhosts/services files. 7.31.fd5 / hp-ux 11.11 Andy >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org >[mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Five Cats >Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:50 PM >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Changing hostname / IP address > > >A customer has a nice new (ish) box and are wondering if >changing the IP >address & host name to that of the current one (which would of course >also be changed) would be a possible way of avoiding having to >get a new >icon on each PCs desktop - there are several hundred PCs in >quite a few >offices across 800 square miles and they don't have Citrix or >similar to >manage the desktops. > >I can see it will be necessary to alter the host in the sqlhosts file, >but will this be acceptable? Or is there something I don't know about >in the sysmaster and/or sysutils database that would get upset? > >The OS is Solaris 8, the Informix is IDS 7.3x. > >TIA > >-- >Five Cats >Email to: cats_spam at uk2 dot net > > sending to informix-list