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Date:      Wed, 26 Jun 2002 23:44:32 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: comp name
Message-ID:  <20020626224432.GB68946@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <000701c21d4c$7ad27c90$2f056dd4@chappe2>
References:  <000701c21d4c$7ad27c90$2f056dd4@chappe2>

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 10:02:03PM +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote:
> Where in fBSD can I find the name of my computer?

Several ways:

uname -n

hostname

grep hostname /etc/rc.conf

> That is, the name of the comp in a network.

The hostname of the machine is not necessarily the same as the name
used to access it over a network.

ifconfig -a | awk '/inet / { print $2 }' | xargs -n 1 host

	Matthew

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