== How to irritate your successor (on Solaris)

How to to really irritate your successor sysadmin on a Solaris machine:

> Set the machine's hostname not by changing _/etc/nodename_, but by
> hand-editing a '_hostname foobar_' into the _/etc/init.d/network_
> startup script.

Of course, you won't want to keep the machine current on patches either;
otherwise, your successor might take a much longer time to find this,
and have a much less exciting day.

Important caution: for the safest results, insure that you are a long
way away from your successor.

I must thank Solaris's _patchadd_ and associated infrastructure for
saving a copy of the old 'modified out from underneath it' init.d
scripts; without that I might never have figured out how this machine
had once worked.

(The modification was made right after the _network_ script normally
prints the hostname on the console, and it's relatively easy to find
where that message is generated, so I can contort my mind to see how a
sufficiently brute force sysadmin might set the hostname this way.)