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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:31:23 +1100
From:      michael Christie <michael@christie.org.au>
To:        FreeBsd Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: server name
Message-ID:  <1108981883.9422.55.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502211015420.4077@jackhammer>
References:  <1108980962.9422.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <Pine.LNX.4.58.0502211015420.4077@jackhammer>

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I see what you mean, that may not help me as my host name is an ip
address running in a jail. There for my host name at the command prompt
is 192#  if I change the ip to a name in the /etc/rc.conf  I do not
think the jail will run.

Please advise

thanks

Michael


On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:16 +0000, Rus Foster wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, michael Christie wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Can any one please tell me how to change the name of the computer at the
> > command prompt ie  my name#
> > 
> 
> Run "hostname mynewname.com". You will also want to updatee /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Rus



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