Re: Where is the host name?

[Jaime Fournier <ober%mauthesis.com@localhost>]

Hi
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Anthony Howe wrote:

> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:43:27 +0200
> From: Anthony Howe <achowe%snert.com@localhost>
> To: port-cobalt%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Subject: Where is the host name?
>
> I'm trying to map my OpenBSD knowledge onto NetBSD-Cobalt. Where the
> frack is the hostname set at boot time? I've tried /etc/myname, I've
> tried /etc/rc.conf hostname='name', but those don't work compared to a
> NetBSD doc I've read. A grep -R of /etc for the current hostname doesn't
> fidn anything. I had a quick look in the Linux /boot directory with no
> luck either.
>
> So how does one set/alter the hostname after an install on a 
NetBSD-cobalt?

adding
-----
hostname="host.domain.com"
----
to /etc/rc.conf should be sufficient. A reboot would be required for that
to be picked up.

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-Jaime Fournier
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