From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 14:11:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E046937B40D for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:11:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g54LCa3E000575; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.com) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:12:36 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: "Henning, Brian" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: domain name Message-Id: <20020604141236.519c6817.nkinkade@dsl-only.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:56:21 -0500 "Henning, Brian" wrote: > Hello- > I would like to know what config files determine the domain name of my > bsd box. I am just not sure how to set the domain name other than > through the install program /stand/sysintall. > Thanks, > brian /etc/rc.conf is where your domain name is usually set at boot with hostname="host.domain.something" `uname -n` will give you your hostname as well as sysctl kern.hostname To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message