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Date:      Sat, 05 May 2001 07:16:11 -0700
From:      Drew Tomlinson <drewt@writeme.com>
To:        'Bill Hickum' <yh2789@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: What is the correct way to name my machine?
Message-ID:  <BA5D0CE1CBB2D411B6AA00A0CC3F02390AF9BA@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov>
In-Reply-To: <20010505100058.88659.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com>

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This is what I LOVE about this list.  I was just trying to figure out
how to change my hostname without rebooting.  I changed it in rc.conf
and was thinking along the lines of kill -1 [something].  After reading
the man pages for ifconfig, rc.conf, and inetd, I was still stumped.  So
I came to the list to ask and the answer was already here.

Thanks!

Drew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Hickum [mailto:yh2789@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 3:01 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: What is the correct way to name my machine?
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
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