From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 25 11: 6: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94E191540B for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id LAA71152; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:05:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:05:42 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rc.conf issues: host identity vs host config Message-ID: <19990325110542.B71063@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199903251641.AA07426@bolero-x.rahul.net> <19990325110028.A71063@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990325110028.A71063@relay.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 11:00:28AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to reply to my own email, but there is an error. On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 11:00:28AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > In /etc/rc.conf have the typical > > network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0" > > line, but don't have a > > ifconfig_fxp0="...." > > this will cause ``/etc/rc.network'' to run this code: The error is, reguardless of any ``ifconfig_fxp0="....."'' lines in /etc/rc.conf, ``/etc/start_if.fxp0'' will be run (if it exists). Thus all you would need to do is put the ``hostname foo.bar.com'' in there. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message