bin/172846: bsdinstall - setting hostname

[jb]

>Number:         172846
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall - setting hostname
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 18 09:30:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     jb
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC2
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct  2 17:11:45 UTC 2012     root at obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Setting the Hostname.

The entered host name is not propagated to /etc/hosts (only to /etc/rc.conf), 
which causes xauth problem with X startup.
note: this is a normal response
$ cat .startx.log
xauth:  file /home/jb/.serverauth.35136 ...
..
 
I had to manually edit /etc/hosts by adding bsdinstall's host entry
"localhost.localdomain" and reboot.

>How-To-Repeat:
as above
>Fix:


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