From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 17:36:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.kozubik.com (www.kozubik.com [198.78.70.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15EAC37BDB1 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by www.kozubik.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5QMLRc20447; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:21:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@kozubik.com) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 15:21:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Kozubik X-Sender: john@www To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: comp name In-Reply-To: <000701c21d4c$7ad27c90$2f056dd4@chappe2> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your hostname is specified in /etc/rc.conf - look for a line matching this format: hostname="www.example.com" You can enter either a simple hostname, such as "www" or a fully qualified domain name such as "www.example.com". Finally, you may also want to edit /etc/hosts and either change what is already there, or add a line matching this format: 10.20.30.40 www www.example.com (where 10.20.30.40 is your IP address) ----- John Kozubik - john@kozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Hi, > Where in fBSD can I find the name of my computer? > That is, the name of the comp in a network. > It is sometimes shown in the prompt. > Thanks, > Thomas > > > 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