From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 15:47:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from email.telnor.net (email.telnor.net [200.23.249.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E119C37B401 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 15:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kris (red-corb1-200383-121.telnor.net [200.38.3.121]) by email.telnor.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2001.07.26.11.50.p9) with ESMTP id <0GWB003CDWOGXO@email.telnor.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 May 2002 15:48:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:03:14 -0700 From: jehova Subject: localhost for dummies To: FreeBSD-Questions Message-id: <200205181603.14645.tornadox@telnor.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG how can i put a name to my box? and how can i doit without ill efects or misconfiguration, what happens is that i can't (i don't know how) setup host name localhost alias and a basic loopback configuration for a stand alone freebsd machine (no lan, no other boxes atached) just a 56 k usRobotics modem (working) on ppp connection to my ISP telnor.net 200.23.249.1 and 200.23.249.3 if somebody please can help me, i'll send him more info about my box. my native language is not english, and sometimes i can't see what is an example and what is a "do it like this" i mean: english explanations and english keywords for a task sometimes i can't see difference. on man and technical readings is kind of tricky to me, but explanations or "howto for dummies" are easier to grab could somebody help me? -- _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ __ Jehova _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \/ \ tornadox@telnor.net _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | | FreeBSD!!! _ |___/___/___/ \/ "Extracting Wisdom from Sinful... () ...Searching State of Purity." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message