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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:13:49 -0500
To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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At 11:03 AM 04/24/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>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

Thanks. While this works, I think I will take your opinion and not mess 
with anything.





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