Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:08:06 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Erik Trulsson'" <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Uname -v incorrect Message-ID: <003401c3903b$c4813c60$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <20031011205909.GA92571@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:45:14PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently changed the hostname of one of my machines in=20 > /etc/rc.conf. > > Now my uname -v output is still showing the old name. > > I've run uname -a here so you can see the complete output,=20 > the -v stuff > > comes after the '#0:' > > Will this change with a rebuild? > >=20 > > [root@larry ~]# uname -a > > FreeBSD larry.howse.homeunix.net 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD=20 > 4.8-RELEASE-p13 > > #0: Wed Oct 8 09:38:04 CDT 2003 > > root@larry.howse.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM i386 >=20 > The hostname displayed by 'uname -v' is not the name of the host the > kernel is running on. > It is the name of the host the kernel was built on. > A rebuild will indeed change the hostname displayed by 'uname -v'. Thanks!
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