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From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
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Subject: Re: hostname
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On 19 Feb 2006, at 23:14, Randy Pratt wrote:

> /etc/rc.conf should contain the hostname in the form of:
>
> 	hostname="mymachine.example.net"
>
> Some further information can be found in the Handbook:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ 
> configtuning-core-configuration.html
>
> HTH,
>
> Randy

Thanks
I have changed it to "home.nathaniel"
im getting this on boot:
Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):  
opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: cannot bind: Can't assign requested  
address
Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating  
SMTP socket
Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):  
opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting