From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 5 7:16:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1E737B422 for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 07:16:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GCV006018ZIEP@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 May 2001 07:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bigdaddy ([165.66.11.100]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GCV002CG8ZHUN@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 05 May 2001 07:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 07:16:11 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: RE: What is the correct way to name my machine? In-reply-to: <20010505100058.88659.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com> To: 'Bill Hickum' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > __________________________________________________ > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message