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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:55:14 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Nicol=E1s_Castellano?= <jncastellano@noconname.org>
To:        Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem due to hostname change
Message-ID:  <4239A862.80709@noconname.org>
In-Reply-To: <e572718c050317053429bdd25e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e572718c050317053429bdd25e@mail.gmail.com>

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Pietro Cerutti wrote:

>FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE #10: Wed Mar  9 15:40:46 UTC 2005
>    <my_name>@<old_hostname>:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR
>  
>
This is the name of name and hostname who compiles  FreeBSD 
5.4-PRERELEASE #10 Kernel

Don't Worry about this.

>Then, when I try to start apache, I see this in my
>/var/log/httpd-error.log, and apache won't start:
>
>[Thu Mar 17 13:29:11 2005] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to
>gethostbyname("<old_hostname>")
>  
>
/usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf : modify Servername clause to your 
hostname to fix this error

>My question is: how can I change my hostname to <new_hostname> safely,
>in a way that the <old_hostname> is not used anymore in any part of
>the OS?
>  
>
/etc/rc.conf : add line : hostname="your_hostname"

Simply

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