From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 14 03:58:33 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 CA0B337B404 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:58:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.wifi.volker.de (p50893E7A.dip.t-dialin.net [80.137.62.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A45843FBF for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 03:58:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from argus.wifi.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by argus.wifi.volker.de (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h5EAwTsY008887 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:58:29 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030614125829.4774527b.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com> References: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: setting hostname... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:58:34 -0000 > 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