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From: Steven Lake <raiden@shell.core.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing host name
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	That's what I thought, but I just wanted to be sure so I didn't
mess up the hostkey, ssh or anything like that.  I hose this box and my
boss will have my butt on a skillet.  :)

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Eric F Crist wrote:

> 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" <raiden@shell.core.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> 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.
> >
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> Eric F Crist
> President/Sys Admin
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc.
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