Re: Where is the host name?

On Oct 19, 2008, at 12:44 PM 10/19/08, Anthony Howe wrote:

>>> Tried that before my post. Didn't work. It appears to be set some  
>>> place
>>> special on a Cobalt.
>>
>> How didn't it work?
>> What login prompt says?
>> What hostname(1) says?
>> Or are you saying about paneld output?
>
> All of the above.
>
> hostname, login prompt, and paneld all report the same things  
> regardless
> of the /etc/myname or /etc/rc.conf $hostname values.

I've never used anything but /etc/myname to set the hostname.

If you want to change it while it's booted obviously "hostname  
foobar" as root will do that.

Paneld IIRC picks that up on boot.  You're not running it as a dhcd  
client are you?
--
Mike Hebel


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