From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: [Q+A] How do I configure a standalone Mac to run Rush? Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 15:47:25 -0400 |
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> We'd like to do some tests with Rush running on a standalone Mac > that isn't connected to a network. > > We have HOSTNAME=valmont in the /etc/hostconfig file, > but we still getting an error about 'hostname unknown' > from both 'rush -ping' and 'ping valmont'. Setting HOSTNAME=valmont sets the machine's hostname, but it doesn't help the machine resolve the hostname lookup. For a standalone mac, there are two things: 1) You need to help the machine know what it's own IP address is by making an entry in /etc/hosts. So if your machine is statically set to 192.168.1.5, add: 192.168.1.5 valmont With that in place, 'ping valmont' should no longer give a 'hostname unknown' error. However, the ping may still fail with 'no route to host' if you don't have the network port plugged into something (eg. a switch or hub). So: 2) You can either plug it into an otherwise empty switch or hub to get the Mac to bring up the interface (it just needs a link light), or you can *force* the interface up with the following command run as root: ifconfig en0 192.168.1.5 up Replace 'en0' with the name of your network interface. Then 'ping valmont' should work, and equally 'rush -ping' should then work (if you restart the rushd service). |