From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 22:59:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B46416A403 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:59:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F7B43D70 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:59:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from daeg@houston.rr.com) Received: from cpe-24-167-69-19.houston.res.rr.com (cpe-24-167-69-19.houston.res.rr.com [24.167.69.19]) by ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3HMx441021008; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:59:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David J Brooks Organization: KC5WNK To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:59:03 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <3182c3130604171541y577e209fsc5e71624458834a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3182c3130604171541y577e209fsc5e71624458834a5@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(=?utf-8?q?gxJxxc=0A=09R=09nSNPNr*/=5E=7EStawWU9KDJ-CT0k=24f=23?=@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604171759.03911.daeg@houston.rr.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: Matt Rajca Subject: Re: How do I change hostname in freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:59:11 -0000 On Monday 17 April 2006 17:41, Matt Rajca wrote: > ????????? In /rtc/rc.conf add a line like this: hostname="host.network.net" If you are running network services such as DNS, etc. you may need to change it in those configuration files as well. HTH, David -- Sure God created the world in only six days, but He didn't have an established user-base.