Re: Re: Changing System Name

[HankHeath@xxxxxxx]

Good point. Wish I had thought of that before the initial post.

Hank Heath

you wrote:

>> 
I used to feel the same way about system names.  When I set up a system
for

a client, I always used the format 'S' + the serial number of the machine. 

Why fool around?  



But guess what, recently I had a client replace a computer with a RISC

machine.  The computer being replaced was sent to another location. The new

machine had a different serial number.  The old machine still had the same

serial number.  And all kinds of things, including communications programs,

were looking for the system based on the serial number. Now what?



I wound up making quite a few changes for the sake of consistancy, that I

would not have had to make if the name of the system was not tied to the

physical machine.   I sort of wish now that I had just named it after Star

Wars. <<
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