From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 3: 1: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web10904.mail.yahoo.com (web10904.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.131.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CB7837B424 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yh2789@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010505100058.88659.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.43.109.192] by web10904.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 05 May 2001 03:00:58 PDT Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 03:00:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Hickum Subject: Re: What is the correct way to name my machine? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <01050416544201.02354@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In rc.conf of coarse but in the book (The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition) on page 404 it says, "Setting the host name: # hostname -s gw.example.org" This does not change the rc.conf file. I don't know what it does but I did it and nothing seems broken. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message