Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:26:49 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname Message-ID: <25F16C5D-081F-41DF-A631-FC2B3E3D0145@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <71911BE8-0176-4C92-9ADF-40980EB336EA@redry.net> References: <9E440663-1793-43C3-A188-2B12012D8F90@redry.net> <20060219181407.03e1625b.bsd-unix@comcast.net> <71911BE8-0176-4C92-9ADF-40980EB336EA@redry.net>
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On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:24 PM, eoghan wrote: > 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 Try something similar to nathan.localdomain if you don't have either an NIS or DNS domain, since localdomain's kind of like a special keyword AFAIK for non-domain affiliated machines. -Garrett
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