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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:19:01AM +0100, Mick Walker wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I recently (today) upgraded to 5.3-STABLE.
> I am wondering why I cant set my hostname.
> It works if I issue the command hostname whatever.com, but on reboot it
> is reset to nothing.
> I have it set up in my /etc/rc.conf so it applies at boot time.
>=20
> Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Show us what you've done first, don't describe what you think you did :-)

Kris

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