From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 14:59:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from archive.e-u-a.net (rrcs-midsouth-24-199-181-242.biz.rr.com [24.199.181.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6C137B404 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 14:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from armageddon (e-u-a.net [24.199.181.242]) by archive.e-u-a.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g4KLvg2o080942; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:57:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Message-ID: <00b401c20049$95f095e0$fe01a8c0@armageddon> Reply-To: "Eric F Crist" From: "Eric F Crist" To: "Steven Lake" , References: Subject: Re: Changing host name Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 16:59:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 Disposition-Notification-To: "Eric F Crist" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 All you really *need* to do is make sure the DNS servers resolve the name correctly. The computer itself couldn't care less what it's own host name was. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Lake" To: Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:50 PM Subject: Changing host name > I'm possibly needing to change the hostname of one of the machines > we have and I'm curious what all I have to do, besides editing the rc.conf > file to change the hostname so that all of this is painless as possible. > We're running SSH on the machine as well so I don't want to mess that up > at all. Thanks in advance. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Eric F Crist President/Sys Admin AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc. http://www.adtechintegrated.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message