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Date:      Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:48:29 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r199300 - stable/8/share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <200911152348.nAFNmTc7051397@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: dougb
Date: Sun Nov 15 23:48:29 2009
New Revision: 199300
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199300

Log:
  MFC r199127:
  Add a note about no hostname leading to "Amnesiac" on the console
  
  The text is inspired by the PR, but more in line with the existing text
  
  PR:		docs/140434
  Submitted by:	Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com>
  
  MFC r199152:
  s/a default/the default/
  
  Submitted by:	remko
  
  MFC r199299:
  In r199127/r199152 I forgot to bump .Dd

Modified:
  stable/8/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/share/man/man5/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Sun Nov 15 23:31:07 2009	(r199299)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5	Sun Nov 15 23:48:29 2009	(r199300)
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd September 17, 2009
+.Dd November 11, 2009
 .Dt RC.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ If
 .Xr dhclient 8
 is used to set the hostname via DHCP,
 this variable should be set to an empty string.
+If this value remains unset when the system is done booting
+your console login will display the default hostname of
+.Dq Amnesiac.
 .It Va ipv6_enable
 .Pq Vt bool
 Enable support for IPv6 networking.



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