From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 15:20:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from archive.e-u-a.net (rrcs-midsouth-24-199-181-242.biz.rr.com [24.199.181.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44C837B400 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from armageddon (mn-rbe2-ws-345.dsl.hickorytech.net [216.114.245.90]) by archive.e-u-a.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g54MCOlM030056; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:12:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) From: "Eric F Crist" To: "'Henning, Brian'" , Subject: RE: domain name Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:19:36 -0500 Message-ID: <001401c20c15$ecff5c40$fe01a8c0@armageddon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: 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 You can view your current hostname with: #hostname You can change your current hostname with: #hostname You can view you current domain name with: #domainname You can change your current domain name with: #domainname You could also try: #man hostname or #man domainname Setting these permanently would be accomplished with the appropriate line in your rc.conf file: hostname="hostname here" domainname="domain name here" HTH Eric F Crist President/Sys Admin AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc http://www.adtechintegrated.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Henning, Brian Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 3:56 PM To: 'FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG' Subject: domain name 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message