Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:07:30 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname Message-ID: <20101030220730.e929f9b1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=LzD4iehPf7EV_PGfFFdQujMEi0BAzxp%2BVozro@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=LzD4iehPf7EV_PGfFFdQujMEi0BAzxp%2BVozro@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:00:39 -0400, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Put this setting into /etc/rc.conf: hostname="blah.foo.bar" Of course with your desired hostname. :-) See "man rc.conf" and "man hosts" for details about the function of those files; see also /etc/defaults/rc.conf for other options that may be interesting in this concern. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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