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Date:      Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:38:19 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        James S Blankenship <dragoninterrupted@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xauth / gnome error
Message-ID:  <1129257499.2887.3.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <5b4b4d800510131934m21f11fb3w90833196c718781@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5b4b4d800510131904s329f595hb5dc104979b448b0@mail.gmail.com> <1129256379.2887.0.camel@gyros> <5b4b4d800510131934m21f11fb3w90833196c718781@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 19:34 -0700, James S Blankenship wrote:
> Thanks. Pardon me if this is a stupid question, but I don't know what my
> machines host name is; I used DHCP during installation, and believe that it
> may have been named .ontrca.adelphia.net by default. How can I determine the
> localhost name and/or change it? Otherwise, you've provided me with great
> information with the gnome doc.

The hostname command will tell you your hostname.  You can change it
with the same command, and set it permanently in /etc/rc.conf.  See the
man pages for hostname(1) and rc.conf(5) for more details.

Joe

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