From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 18 16:58: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4290814FC5 for ; Tue, 18 May 1999 16:58:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA04106; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:27:59 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA05084; Wed, 19 May 1999 09:27:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:27:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com> References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se>; from Thomas Widlundh on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:12:29AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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