From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 5:32:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE96837B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:32:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gascom.ru (mail.gascom.ru [217.17.160.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 865A743E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asa@gascom.ru) Received: (qmail 53482 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 13:31:29 -0000 Received: from asa.gascom.net.ru (HELO asa) (192.168.100.29) by mail.gascom.ru with SMTP; 6 Nov 2002 13:31:29 -0000 Subject: Re: renaming a machine, without a reboot From: Akifyev Sergey To: stan Cc: Free BSD Questions list In-Reply-To: <20021106132054.GA14342@teddy.fas.com> References: <20021106132054.GA14342@teddy.fas.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Nov 2002 16:31:57 +0300 Message-Id: <1036589517.305.21.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:20, stan wrote: > OUr company is in the middle of a merger, as a result the domain all of my > FreeBSD machine belong to is changing. I've made all the changes that I can > think od (/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/rc.defaults ) but I really prefer _not_ to > reboot the mahcines just to change the FQDN. > > Is there some way I can do this without a reboot? You should execute hostname then, restart all daemons (it's usually done by sending them HUP signal, but better look at their manpages to be sure) and don't forget to restart init and syslogd! regards, Ded PoXoron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message