Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:54:52 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Mike Barborak <mab2001@gmail.com> Subject: Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored? Message-ID: <200705171354.52627.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <b6c5c4be0705171027i68e078b7q165b60adb89e7af8@mail.gmail.com> References: <b6c5c4be0705171027i68e078b7q165b60adb89e7af8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote: > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with > the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be > www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file: > > hostname="www.mydomain.com" > > but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when i > run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Is there a second hostname entry further down in rc.conf with the original value? JN
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