In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 410, Issue 12, Message: 2 On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:51:36 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi <bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com> wrote: | Ron <rg.li...@rzweb.com> wrote: > > OK, I found the problem. It was the hostname not being set correctly. > > What threw me was that it was correct in the rc.conf file, but I did not > > know you needed to reboot the machine to have it take effect. It just > > never occurred to me to run 'hostname' and see since I was seeing it > > correctly in the rc.conf. > > FYI, while it's true tht rc.conf is processed only t boot time, you don't > _have_ to reboot when you make a change. What you _do_ need to do is run > the same commands the the rc processing does. Unfortunately, with the > 'rc.d'-style process, where rc.conf just sets environment variables, and > everything else happens 'by magic', it can be a major effort to figure > out -what- commands need to be run when you change something, and 'reboot' > *is* the simplest way to get the job done. One reason _I_ much prefer > the "old" BSD-style '/etc/rc.boot' and '/etc/rc.local' approch. It was > =far= simpler to see exactly what was going on, in what order, and with > what params. Tracking stuff through the rc.d/* swamp is a 'project' -- > there is a whole nuther 'command language' to master. :((
It's really not all that complicated to change hostname(1) t23# grep hostname /etc/rc.conf hostname="t23.smithi.id.au" t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname boofar t23# csh boofar# exit exit t23# hostname boofar t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au t23# hostname t23.smithi.id.au cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"