From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 19 2:49:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maskin.ettnet.se (maskin.oden.se [193.220.120.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A688A15422 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 02:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tw@ettnet.se) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by maskin.ettnet.se (8.9.1a/8.8.8) id LAA28829; Wed, 19 May 1999 11:47:49 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from UNKNOWN(193.220.122.7), claiming to be "ettnet.se" via SMTP by maskin, id smtpdAAAa0072H; Wed May 19 11:47:41 1999 Message-ID: <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se> Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:28:06 +0200 From: Thomas Widlundh Reply-To: tw@ettnet.se X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se> <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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... Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. First I am to Thank every of You who gave me an answer. Now Greg, I'm not shure what You are talking about. Do You mean a name in the Internet like the name of my ISP, ettnet.se? I mean the name which comes up during boot, just before the login prompt. I'm to login to a machine with the name mydomain.my.etc. Erlier I had Caldera Base 1.1 on my HD. During installation I got this question where I could change the name my.mydomain.etc to what I wanted. I didn't know and understand it at the time so I typed tw. The result was a very slow boot. The machine stopped at sendmail for a long while and then continued. I was told that that was because sendmail tried to find this name and wasn't pleased with my tiny "tw". It wanted a long name like this my.mydomain.etc with these two periods. Sendmail continued the boot after a time out. I changed the name to a longer one, end sendmail was pleased and booted up fast. In BSD i changed the name somewhere, can't recall where, and sendmail is stopping like in Linux. Then, after a minute or so, sendmail seems to time out and continue. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message