From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 18:17: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sheridan.tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC1E37BB7C for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:36:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.umu.se (h25n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.25]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 953704.125185.1025.0s5525801sheridan ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:59:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3D1A2B42.4597CEF2@cs.umu.se> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:59:46 +0200 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Widlundh Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: comp name References: <000701c21d4c$7ad27c90$2f056dd4@chappe2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > Hi, > Where in fBSD can I find the name of my computer? > That is, the name of the comp in a network. > It is sometimes shown in the prompt. > Thanks, > Thomas I'm not sure this is what you want, but... man hostname The hostname is set in rc.conf. If you change it, and don't use a DNS server to get IP-address from hostname translation, you might have to change other com- puters hosts file (FreeBSD) or lmhosts (Windows) to be able to find the computer in the network. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message