change hostname

[Tim Dunphy]

that did it! thanks

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Noel <noeldude at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/27/2011 9:18 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>>
>> hey guys,
>>
>>  I setup a FreeBSD 8.2 box to server as an LDAP server. I forgot that
>> I had a TLS cert with a different hostname than the one I selected. So
>> I edited /etc/rc.conf to change the name there
>>
>> defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
>> hostname="LBSD2.summitnjhome.com"  ##<  -- used to be
>> LBSD1.summitnjhome.com
>> ifconfig_bge0="inet 192.168.1.44  netmask 255.255.255.0"
>> nfs_client_enable="YES"
>> sshd_enable="YES"
>> named_enable="YES"
>> slapd_enable="YES"
>>
>>
>> And then edited /etc/hosts
>>
>> ::1                     localhost localhost.summitnjhome.com
>> 127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.summitnjhome.com
>> 192.168.1.44            LBSD2.summitnjhome.com LBSD2 ##<-- used to be
>> LBSD1.summitnjhome.com
>> 192.168.1.44            LBSD2.summitnjhome.com.  ##<<-- Same
>>
>> then i restarted the network
>>
>> LBSD2# /etc/rc.d/netif restart
>> Stopping Network: lo0 bge0 plip0.
>> lo0: flags=8048<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 16384
>>        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>>
>>  options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>        ether 00:14:22:38:9e:eb
>>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT<full-duplex>)
>>        status: active
>> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 1500
>> Starting Network: lo0 bge0.
>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu 16384
>>        options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>>        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>        nd6 options=3<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV>
>> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>  metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>>
>>  options=8009b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,LINKSTATE>
>>        ether 00:14:22:38:9e:eb
>>        inet 192.168.1.44 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>>        media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>>        status: no carrier
>>
>>
>> However when I issue the hostname -f command it does not reflect the
>> change. It doesn't even show the fqdn
>>
>> LBSD2# hostname -f
>> LBSD2
>>
>> What am I doing wrong, here?
>>
>>
>> thanks
>
> Try typing the command:
>
> # hostname LBSD2.summitnjhome.com
>
>
>
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