From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 19 15:18:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7906137B7EB for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA78338; Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:18:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 18:18:30 -0500 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: flush the previous hostname Message-ID: <20000319181830.C78153@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <4.3.2.20000319052433.0204d600@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20000319052433.0204d600@mail.Go2France.com>; from lconrad@Go2France.com on Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:28:21AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 05:28:21AM +0100, Len Conrad wrote: > I changed the hostname of a fbsd 3.4 from hostold to hostnew, in rc.conf. > > From the net, this works fine. And dig @ our nameservers find none with > hosthold and all with hostnew. But within hosthnew, we are still get > screen and log msgs referring to hostold. of course, we have rebooted, but > the machine is still haunted by hostold msgs. > > Where else do we change the hostname other than rc.conf? If you rebooted, that should pretty much do it. However, does /etc/hosts get consulted before the DNS? What's in there? Same thing with NIS, if you are running it. Could you be more specific about where you see the old hostname being used? And why were about four copies of this mail sent to the list? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message