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From: Tom Torrance at home <tom@tomqnx.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;(
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On 17 Jun 1996, ELEONORE WILLIAMS wrote:

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> After an install from a Walnut Creek CDROM, I ran the hostname script, but getty and login keep posting my hostname as "myname". I looked all over the /etc directory, but there was nothing there. Anyone?
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> 
Try editing /etc/sysconfig, it's pretty well commented.
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