No worries -
Rebooting will indeed run through the items rc.conf, but in general you
can run any of those commands at any time. You can change the host name
with the "hostname" command and it takes effect immediately. Restart
syslog as well if you want the new host name to appear in the log files.
Joe
On 10/03/2010 01:11 AM, Eugene V. Boontseff wrote:
On 03.10.2010 03:06, jason hirsh wrote:
the change to the rc.conf doesn't apparently take effect until you
reboot.. there might be another way but i am a bit of a newbie
man hostname
On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:42 PM, joe wrote:
You rebooted to change the hostname???
Joe
On 10/02/2010 01:13 PM, jason hirsh wrote:
On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* jason hirsh <hir...@att.net>:
I am doing an installation on a new FreeBSD 8.1 box and it fail
with
postfix: warning: valid_hostname: invalid character 32(decimal):
my.domain-server.com
remove the trailing or leading space
from "my.domain-server.com " or " my.domain-server.com"
I missed that
edit and corrected rc.conf
reboot and installation went fine
thanks for you quick response
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