From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 03:34:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A641837B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailb.telia.com (mailb.telia.com [194.22.194.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6152E43FB1 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fredrik.carlen@telia.com) Received: from d1o1025.telia.com (d1o1025.telia.com [213.64.156.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5EAYoGU010503 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:34:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: Received: by d1o1025.telia.com (8.10.2p2/8.10.1) id h5EAYox18770; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:34:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:34:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com> X-Authentication-Warning: d1o1025.telia.com: www set sender to fredrik.carlen@telia.com using -f From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fredrik=20Carl=E9n?=" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Telia Webmail X-Telia-webmail-clientstamp: [81.224.88.38] 2003-06-14 12:34:50 Subject: setting hostname... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fredrik=20Carl=E9n?= List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:34:54 -0000 I am about as stupid as they come...I haven't used FreeBSD for a couple of years, but I'm glad to say that I'm back, and that FreeBSD5.0 is an improvement (I used 3.2...) Now to my question (and the reason I feel stupid): I named my computer "al-djabr" first, but decided to change to "al-khwarizmi", in honour of the late, great arabic mathematician. My domain is "intra.arrhythmetic.net", so the hostname would be "al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net"...I put this in /etc/rc.conf, of course, and sure enough, the system seems to think it's named according to my rc.conf-wishes... When X starts, though, it complains that - and I quote - "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured". Now where does this little gem stem from? I've even used profanity, but nothing seems to work... Sorry to have to bother you all with these trivialities. ========================================================== additional redundant(?) info: # hostname al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net # echo $HOSTNAME al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net # uname -a FreeBSD al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386