Host name change notification from System Administrator root@server.com Our Mac OSX servers sends me this message every day:

Name: System Administrator
Email: root@server.SERVER.nl
Dept: Support

The host name of SERVER1 has changed to SERVER2. Some services may not work correctly until they have been updated to use the new configuration.


(in which, SERVER1 is the old host name and 2 the new host name of our server). What does it mean, and what could I do to solve this (get rid of this message). The server seems to work just fine, just as it did before.
I was having the same problem &amp; found this thread on Apple Support Communities.

The short of it is that unless the name change is done through the command line with sudo changeip, it will forever complain about the change. The command goes like this:

sudo changeip OLDIPADDRESS NEWIPADDRESS OLDNAME NEWNAME


Use the same IP address and name in both spots and it's happy.