Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:14:07 -0500 From: Randy Pratt <bsd-unix@comcast.net> To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname Message-ID: <20060219181407.03e1625b.bsd-unix@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <9E440663-1793-43C3-A188-2B12012D8F90@redry.net> References: <9E440663-1793-43C3-A188-2B12012D8F90@redry.net>
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On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:55:14 +0000 eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> wrote: > Hello > Im wondering what the hostname value should read in my rc.conf... I > booted to gnome and it was complaining it couldnt find "myhostname"... > suggested adding it to /etc/hosts > So i added > 127.0.0.1 nathaniel > also in here was: > 127.0.0.1 localhost > reboot and i was getting errors about not being able to bind to nathanie > Check my rc.conf and hostname now read nathanie (without the l) > I changed it to localhost and im still getting these boot errors and > message when i startx. > What should this read. I has been long since i have edited my rc.conf... /etc/rc.conf should contain the hostname in the form of: hostname="mymachine.example.net" Some further information can be found in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-core-configuration.html HTH, Randy --
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