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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:59:24 +0200
From:      Rob <rob@debank.tv>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk>
Subject:   Re: /usr/libexec/save-entropy problem
Message-ID:  <3EF9D4EC.1040902@debank.tv>
In-Reply-To: <20030625164808.GE402@nitro.dk>
References:  <3EF9D023.6090607@debank.tv> <20030625164808.GE402@nitro.dk>

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Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2003.06.25 18:38:59 +0200, Rob wrote:
> 
> 
>>I get e-mails from my current boxes saying: "hostname: sethostname:
>>Operation not permitted"  (original message attached).
>>I know this is the random seed saving instance of crontab, but what
>>goes wrong here ? (why does it fail permission)
>>
>>The box is updated today and mergemaster was run (This didn't help a 
>>thing ;-))
> 
> 
> What does your /etc/rc.conf contain ? Perhaps you have commands which
> sets the hostname in there ?
> 

Mmmph,

I had the line:
		'hostname slopuh.debank.tv'
in my rc.conf, this ofcourse should have been 			    		 
'hostname="slopuh.debank.tv"'
The funny thing is that the host name did show up correct.
Problem solved
thx!

Rob Evers



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