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Date:      Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:29 +0200
From:      Volker Kindermann <freebsd@secspace.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setting hostname...
Message-ID:  <20030614125829.4774527b.freebsd@secspace.de>
In-Reply-To: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com>
References:  <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com>

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> 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". 

is the old name still in /etc/hosts?

 -volker



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