Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:45:21 -0500 From: "Jonathan T. Sage" <sagejona@theatre.msu.edu> To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing hostname Message-ID: <4005F0B1.4010801@theatre.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401150216341.284@tsunami.bsd> References: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401150216341.284@tsunami.bsd>
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Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to change the hostname of one of my machines without a
> reboot. Is it enough to change my rc.conf and run the /etc/netstart script
> or do I have to do something else?
>
man hostname(1):
NAME
hostname -- set or print name of current host system
SYNOPSIS
hostname [-s] [name-of-host]
a simple
# hostname new.host.name
should do what you're asking. also add it to rc.conf so the changes
stay on next reboot
~j
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