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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2007 16:03:22 -0400
From:      "Mike Barborak" <mab2001@gmail.com>
To:        "Robert Huff" <roberthuff@rcn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?
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Thanks.

For posterity then, anyone who unwisely wishes to give up the hunt and use
this hack, one solution is to add this line to /etc/rc.conf:

local_startup="/usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d
/usr/local/etc/rc.after_everything.d"

Then create the directory /usr/local/etc/rc.after_everything.d (same
permissions as /usr/local/etc/rc.d) and put a file named hostname.sh in that
directory with this content:

#!/bin/sh
/bin/hostname your_hostname_here

Make the file executable.

-Mike


On 5/17/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>
> Mike Barborak writes:
>
> >  Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during
> >  boot up? If I add a line like "/bin/hostname www.mydomain.com" to
> >  /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change?
>
>         Start with "man rc.d".
>
>
>
>                                 Robert Huff
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