Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:34:33 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: problem due to hostname change Message-ID: <e572718c050317053429bdd25e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi list,
my computer is not part of a domain, and so I had set my hostname to
<old_hostname>.
Now I changed it in rc.conf to <new_hostname>:
~> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep hostname
hostname="<new_hostname>"
~>
I rebooted, but my pc is still somewhere configured to be called <old_hostname>.
First of all, when the pc boots, I see this in dmesg:
FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #10: Wed Mar 9 15:40:46 UTC 2005
<my_name>@<old_hostname>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR
Then, when I try to start apache, I see this in my
/var/log/httpd-error.log, and apache won't start:
[Thu Mar 17 13:29:11 2005] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to
gethostbyname("<old_hostname>")
My question is: how can I change my hostname to <new_hostname> safely,
in a way that the <old_hostname> is not used anymore in any part of
the OS?
Thank you!
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Pietro Cerutti
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