Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:23:25 -0400 From: "Mike Barborak" <mab2001@gmail.com> To: "Mark Tinguely" <tinguely@casselton.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored? Message-ID: <b6c5c4be0705171223u781453f5wf8b8f99efa4f9651@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705171856.l4HIu0a8073517@casselton.net> References: <b6c5c4be0705171112y207ffee1v5d247ab011e1c238@mail.gmail.com> <200705171856.l4HIu0a8073517@casselton.net>
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Thanks for the suggestions. That's right, I'm not using DHCP. I searched through /etc and /usr/local/etc for calls to hostname and for the string www.mydomain.com and all I found was a call to the command "hostname" in /etc/rc.network and my setting of the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf. After perusing /etc, apparently rc.network is called by /etc/rc after sourcing rc.conf and this is how the hostname in /etc/rc.conf becomes the hostname of the machine. So that appears to be fine. Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I add a line like "/bin/hostname www.mydomain.com" to /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change? Thanks, Mike On 5/17/07, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net> wrote: > > > I understand DHCP setting the hostname, which you are not using. > I understand DNS or /etc/hosts reporting the old name on the network, > but it should not effect hostname. > > I would look for the old name: > > # grep -r mydomain.com /etc > > --Mark Tinguely >
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