Very Computer

but the fix that is offered does not work ! This involves making sure that
/etc/hosts has a short name in it (not a FQDN) and making sure that it
is read through nsswitch.conf - I am not using NIS, only DNS.

I suspect it may have to do with my hostname being a FQDN.  Sun don't know
they said it was fixed in 2.3 and are investigating.  Anybody out there
managed to get this working under similar circumstances.

Thanks in advance.

Chris.
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Although Sun's documentation explicitly says hostnames only contain
alphanumberic and underscore. I still consider this to be a bug.

Edwin.
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Edwin Allum
CSRI, University of Toronto

: >After installing Solaris 2.3 I am having problems getting calendar
: >manager to work.  There was a bug in 2.2 that has exactly the same
: >symptoms:
: >----------------------
: > Bug Id:     1134529
: > Category:  deskset
: > Subcategory:  calendar
: > Release summary: 3.2, 3.1, s493_fcs
: > Synopsis:  cm 3.2 fails w/ Error in creation of calendar file

: > Integrated in releases:  s1093_beta
: >-----------------------

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: There were a few problems under 2.2 that caused the same error.
: One of them was the one you described.
: Anyway, cm will not run with hostnames that contain a period.
: So if you use a partially qualified or fully qualified hostname it's
: a no go.

: Although Sun's documentation explicitly says hostnames only contain
: alphanumberic and underscore. I still consider this to be a bug.

This certainly appears to be the case.  After three days still no
call from sun about this problem so I did some experimenting and
found a workaround.  If you can explicitly set your hostname
to be JUST your hostname (not a FQDN) then it will work.  I used

/usr/ucb/hostname origma

to name my machine.  This writes to /etc/nodename

And all seems fine now, no thanks to Sun...

Chris.
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