From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 17: 8: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F1D37B405 for ; Mon, 20 May 2002 17:07:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4L07uZC441174; Mon, 20 May 2002 20:07:56 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:07:55 -0400 To: Steven Lake , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Changing host name Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 4:50 PM -0500 5/20/02, Steven Lake wrote: > I'm possibly needing to change the hostname of one >of the machines we have and I'm curious what all I have >to do, besides editing the rc.conf file That's all you have to change, and then reboot. You'd probably want to make sure that your DNS knows about that hostname for the IP address that the machine is using. Strictly speaking the machine can run with whatever hostname it wants to, but some services (such as lpr, or sendmail) can get confused if the machine is using a hostname that is not the same as what DNS says the hostname should be... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message