Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:13:49 -0500 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jeff@xpec.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nodename Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20030424111316.00a725b0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030424160306.GB46211@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030424080740.00a725b0@localhost> <5.2.1.1.2.20030424080740.00a725b0@localhost>
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At 11:03 AM 04/24/2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 08:09:06AM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > > I am wondering how to change the nodename (uucp name) under 4.8-RELEASE? > > > > I built sendmail from scratch and noticed that the $k value > > comes up as 'foo.bar.com' instead of the expected 'foo'. > > > > Under Openbsd, I can change this via 'myname' ...or under solaris with > > 'nodename' .... > > > > Where is this in FreeBSD? > >Try the 'hostname="xxx"' setting in /etc/rc.conf. FreeBSD generally >sets this to the FQDN --- rightly in my humble opinion, but you may >choose to differ. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks. While this works, I think I will take your opinion and not mess with anything. -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care Information Services Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA Main Office: 414.978.3000
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