From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 20:00:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8865F106567A for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:00:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bluethundr@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190B38FC08 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so3526252bwz.13 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=NpHxL1oOrpwZrlY6ve0+KWHKtcaafrzt3yjiIgURwmU=; b=ZXXFWpDpgAOn1tGNDj78E/0cyS62apSMDTBkD63vdhotd7s8zmAaQ026hx76MHoQKv aGtP31AWSWNt4Cmh2iB28Ce6K5iNAJ5/tO7Bv0L6mJRY41KwpLMtessmAbBvSDthU20V HZ8gVUF66CRvEry7zqRGluRnw8UOvh/D4RuIo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=OyDNk3m+CWaEEedHzsj4hnkzQHSp8lmbTuYYreeKUvIMj37qjrq7rOjca64/ggdpx/ rbteBJB0kvn5O7zzrFqQacPd+Gs9LC+WVzvduqz6EtwFL0Z7s9YJrYT+rCDihAMMyojZ 7GaS7797PBmQZjcdLFzVWzQ46405HG4Xe0Cb0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.102.76 with SMTP id f12mr8152146bko.57.1288468839535; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.81.153 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:00:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:00:39 -0400 Message-ID: From: Tim Dunphy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: hostname X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:00:41 -0000 how can I set the hostname so that it persists through reboots? I have set the hostname I want in /etc/hosts but rebooting the change does not show up. In CentOS you have /etc/hostname which serves this purpose but in FreeBSD I don't know how to do this. thanks -- Here's my RSA Public key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 5A4873A9 Share and enjoy!!