Solaris 9 12/03 Installation Guide

Preconfiguring With the Name Service

The following table provides a high-level overview of the name service databases that you need to edit and populate to preconfigure system information.

System Information to Preconfigure	Name Service Database
Host name and Internet Protocol (IP) address	`hosts`
Date and time	`hosts`. Specify the `timehost` alias next to the host name of the system that will provide the date and time for the systems that are being installed.
Time zone	`timezone`
Netmask	`netmasks`

You cannot preconfigure the locale for a system with the DNS or LDAP name service. If you use the NIS or NIS+ name service, follow the procedure for your name service to preconfigure the locale for a system:

To Preconfigure the Locale Using NIS

Become superuser on the name server.

Change /var/yp/Makefile to add the locale map.

Insert this shell procedure after the last variable.time shell procedure.

locale.time:  $(DIR)/locale
        -@if [ -f $(DIR)/locale ]; then \
               sed -e "/^#/d" -e s/#.*$$// $(DIR)/locale \
               | awk '{for (i = 2; i<=NF; i++) print $$i, $$0}' \
               | $(MAKEDBM) - $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/locale.byname; \
               touch locale.time; \
               echo "updated locale"; \
               if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then \
                       $(YPPUSH) locale.byname; \
                       echo "pushed locale"; \
               else \
               : ; \
               fi \
        else \
               echo "couldn't find $(DIR)/locale"; \
        fi

Find the string all: and, at the end of the list of variables, insert the word locale.

all: passwd group hosts ethers networks rpc services protocols \
	netgroup bootparams aliases publickey netid netmasks c2secure \
	timezone auto.master auto.home locale

Near the end of the file, after the last entry of its type, insert the string locale: locale.time on a new line.

passwd: passwd.time
group: group.time
hosts: hosts.time
ethers: ethers.time
networks: networks.time
rpc: rpc.time
services: services.time
protocols: protocols.time
netgroup: netgroup.time
bootparams: bootparams.time
aliases: aliases.time
publickey: publickey.time
netid: netid.time
passwd.adjunct: passwd.adjunct.time
group.adjunct: group.adjunct.time
netmasks: netmasks.time
timezone: timezone.time
auto.master: auto.master.time
auto.home: auto.home.time
locale: locale.time

Save the file.

Create the file /etc/locale and make one entry for each domain or specific system:
locale domain_name
Or
locale system_name
Note –
Appendix D, Locale Values (Reference) contains a list of valid locales.

For example, the following entry specifies that French is the default language that is used in the worknet.com domain:
fr worknet.com
And the following entry specifies that Belgian French is the default locale that is used by a system named charlie:
fr_BE charlie
Note –
Locales are available on the Solaris DVD or Solaris Software 1 of 2 CD.

Make the maps:
# cd /var/yp; make
Systems that are specified by domain or individually in the locale map are now set up to use the default locale. The default locale that you specified is used during installation and by the desktop after the system is rebooted.

To Preconfigure the Locale Using NIS+

The following procedure assumes the NIS+ domain is set up. Setting up the NIS+ domain is documented in the System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP).

Create the locale table:

# nistbladm -D access=og=rmcd,nw=r -c locale_tbl name=SI,nogw= 
locale=,nogw= comment=,nogw= locale.org_dir.`nisdefaults -d`

Add needed entries to the locale.
# nistbladm -a name=name locale=locale comment=comment locale.org_dir.`nisdefaults -d`
name

Either the domain name or a specific system name for which you want to preconfigure a default locale.

locale

The locale you want to install on the system and use on the desktop after the system is rebooted. Appendix D, Locale Values (Reference) contains a list of valid locales.

comment

The comment field. Use double quotation marks to begin and end comments that are longer than one word.

Note –
Locales are available on the Solaris DVD or Solaris Software 1 of 2 CD.

Systems that are specified by domain or individually in the locale table are now set up to use the default locale. The default locale you specified is used during installation and by the desktop after the system is rebooted.