On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:26:13PM -0500, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote: > Hello all, > > While we are on the topic, after the hostname and domain have been > setup from the initial installation, how can they be changed? I went > through the FreeBSD manual and some Google searching and did not come > up with anything that made any sense. I assume there are files to be > edited, probably under /etc. I am just not sure what all of them are. > Any assistance (or reference to a site that will explain this to me) > will be greatly appreciated (I am a newbie to UNIX and especially > FreeBSD).
In /etc/rc.conf, the variable $hostname sets the machine's name at startup. Simply edit the value set here, and next time the machine starts up, the new hostname will be set. To change it in a running system without rebooting, use hostname(1): # hostname new.machine.name HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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