From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 2 17:41:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.10.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D112714E07 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:41:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Received: from SHURIKEN (shuriken.lanfear.com [208.12.10.35]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA11290; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcw@lanfear.com) Reply-To: From: "Marc Wandschneider" To: "'nat'" , Subject: RE: changing hostname.. Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 17:40:20 -0800 Message-ID: <001601bf3d2f$5ccf4cf0$230a0cd0@SHURIKEN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0017_01BF3CEC.4EAC0CF0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-reply-to: <001201bf3d26$04a2e860$0300a8c0@orng1.occa.home.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01BF3CEC.4EAC0CF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I believe the kernel shows who last ran 'config' on the kernel, not the actual current name. So, if you last ran 'config' on a kernel options file before the name change, it'd show the old machine name. marc. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of nat Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:33 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: changing hostname.. I wanted to change my hostname and so i edited the rc.conf file and changed my hostname. After that everything reflected my settings... Did i do it correctly? The reason that i am questioning if i did it correctly is that when i recompiled the kernel because of the ident part it showed my old e-mail address as the user who compiled it. thanx, nat ------=_NextPart_000_0017_01BF3CEC.4EAC0CF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
    I believe the kernel shows = who last=20 ran 'config' on the kernel, not the actual current name.  So, if = you last=20 ran 'config' on a kernel options file before the name change, it'd show = the old=20 machine name.
 
    marc.
 
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From:=20 owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of=20 nat
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:33 = PM
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Subject: changing=20 hostname..

I wanted to change my hostname and so i edited the = rc.conf
file and changed my hostname.
After that everything reflected my = settings...
Did i do it correctly?
The reason that i am questioning if i did it = correctly is=20 that when
i recompiled the kernel because of the ident part = it showed=20 my old
e-mail address as the user who compiled = it.
 
thanx,
 
nat
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