Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:27:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se>; from Thomas Widlundh on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:12:29AM %2B0200 References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se>
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On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 0:12:29 +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > Hi. > During installation, I was asked for a name of my domain (or the name of the > machine?). > The default was something like domain.mydomain.my***. > Of course I put in something else. > But when I now have managed (with some help of You) to > get FBSD and X to work, my machine is still called > mydomain.etc.etc. And I have searched a lot for how to change this, but... > > My question is: > How can I change this? In wich file(s) is this? People have told you how to change it. I haven't seen anybody explain what it means: this domain name is visible world-wide, and it needs to be registered. If you don't have a domain name, leave it empty. To get a domain name, look at http://www.networksolutions.com/ and try to guess what their stupid terminology really means. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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