Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:03:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "J.D. Bronson" <jeff@xpec.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nodename Message-ID: <20030424160306.GB46211@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030424080740.00a725b0@localhost> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030424080740.00a725b0@localhost>
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:09:06AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> I am wondering how to change the nodename (uucp name) under 4.8-RELEASE?
>
> I built sendmail from scratch and noticed that the $k value
> comes up as 'foo.bar.com' instead of the expected 'foo'.
>
> Under Openbsd, I can change this via 'myname' ...or under solaris with
> 'nodename' ....
>
> Where is this in FreeBSD?
Try the 'hostname="xxx"' setting in /etc/rc.conf. FreeBSD generally
sets this to the FQDN --- rightly in my humble opinion, but you may
choose to differ.
Cheers,
Matthew
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