Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:18:49 +0000 (UTC) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r199127 - head/share/man/man5 Message-ID: <200911100318.nAA3Inqe045258@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: dougb Date: Tue Nov 10 03:18:49 2009 New Revision: 199127 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199127 Log: Add a note about no hostname leading to "Amnesiac" on the console The text is inspired by the PR, but more in line with the existing text PR: docs/140434 Submitted by: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> Modified: head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Modified: head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Tue Nov 10 01:12:00 2009 (r199126) +++ head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Tue Nov 10 03:18:49 2009 (r199127) @@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ If .Xr dhclient 8 is used to set the hostname via DHCP, this variable should be set to an empty string. +If this value remains unset when the system is done booting +your console login will display a default hostname of +.Dq Amnesiac. .It Va nisdomainname .Pq Vt str The NIS domain name of this host, or
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