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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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