From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 1 08:53:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17755 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 May 1996 08:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17730 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 08:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay3.smtp.psi.net (relay3.smtp.psi.net [38.8.210.2]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id IAA05553 for ; Wed, 1 May 1996 08:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d-e.pvt.k12.nj.us by relay3.smtp.psi.net (8.6.12/SMI-5.4-PSI) id LAA11688; Wed, 1 May 1996 11:42:24 -0400 Received: from DWIGHT/MAILQ by d-e.pvt.k12.nj.us (Mercury 1.21); 1 May 96 11:46:17 -0500 Received: from MAILQ by DWIGHT (Mercury 1.21); 1 May 96 11:45:49 -0500 From: "Bill Campbell" Organization: Dwight-Englewood School To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 11:45:48 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Changing name of workstation Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <12E36821E59@d-e.pvt.k12.nj.us> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would like to change the name of the FreeBSD 2.0.5 workstation that I'm currently managing. As best I can tell, I only need to change the hostname variable in the Netconfig section of the the /etc/sysconfig file. Is that really it? It seems too easy. The only non-straight-from-the-standard-install software that the box is running is CERN-httpd. (I do realize that I have to notify the ISP keeping our site's DNS database of the new name.) Currently I'm using the name that I picked when prompted for during the FreeBSD install off of the CD so I've never changed it "manually". Thanks in advance. - Bill *--------- * Bill Campbell email: campbb@d-e.pvt.k12.nj.us * Dwight-Englewood School phone: 201-569-9500 ext 3206 * 315 E. Palisade Avenue * Englewood, New Jersey 07631 * USA