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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.erg.cuhk.hk!usenet From: CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting up a host name Date: 15 Jul 1995 02:16:49 GMT Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK Lines: 38 Message-ID: <3u78eh$oc8@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk> References: <3u3c1p$h70@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: crystal.cs.cuhk.hk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="-------------------------------4183515166136339571939562362" X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:3u3c1p$h70@cmcl2.NYU.EDU This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------------------4183515166136339571939562362 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii you may cd to /etc and edit sysconfig. Change the line with hostname to your desired and reboot the machine. Clarence CHAN steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu (Joseph Steinberg) wrote: > >What is the proper way to set up a host's name on FreeBSD >(I assume that I put it in hosts, the domain in domainname, etc.) > >Thanks, > ---------------------------------4183515166136339571939562362 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain From: steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu (Joseph Steinberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Setting up a host name Date: 13 Jul 1995 14:53:45 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <3u3c1p$h70@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> What is the proper way to set up a host's name on FreeBSD (I assume that I put it in hosts, the domain in domainname, etc.) Thanks, ---------------------------------4183515166136339571939562362--