Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:52:39 +0200 From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com> To: Mick Walker <mwalker@codegurus.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hostname Message-ID: <7cbadc870410290352c8b9dde@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1099040705.26921.9.camel@codegurus.org> References: <1099005540.26921.5.camel@codegurus.org> <20041028232536.GA29572@xor.obsecurity.org> <1099040705.26921.9.camel@codegurus.org>
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:05:05 +0100, Mick Walker <mwalker@codegurus.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 00:25, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:19:01AM +0100, Mick Walker wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Does anyone know how I can fix this? > > > > Show us what you've done first, don't describe what you think you did :-) > > > > Kris > > > $ hostname > > $ > $ hostname laptop.codegurus.org > $ hostname > laptop.codegurus.org > $ > > And in my /etc/rc.conf file I have: > hostname="laptop.codegurus.org" > Perhaps you have conflicting information in /etc/hosts ? Nelis
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