From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 10 13:28:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA21560 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:28:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from walnut.readington.com (walnut.readington.com [207.207.198.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21554 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:28:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by walnut.readington.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06341; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:46:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:46:16 -0500 (EST) From: Chris To: trout@net66.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intruder alert and naming your computer In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990210152449.00f6d5b0@net66.com> Message-ID: Webpage: http://www.weirdo.net/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the "security: intruder alert!" is part of fortune, nothing to worry about there. To set your hostname look at /etc/rc.conf, you'll see a line that says: hostname= That should do it, Chris On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 trout@net66.com wrote: > > hello all: > > this morning when i booted to my freebsd partition, i was greeted with the > following message: "security: intruder alert!" > > what does this mean? my machine is not hooked up to anything else. at all. > it sits in the corner all day by itself all alone. > > how do i name my machine? i know there is a file that i modify, but i can't > remember which one. i am getting tired of "myname" > > thanks > > -aaron > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > ...produces pitch-perfect musical tones when filled halfway with water and > rubbed with moist finger. and remember folks, he's bathtub safe. > > ....sent from troutinthemilkyway, leader in nearly stable computing: NT and > freeBSD > ...and remember, net66 sucks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- > > 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