Uname -v incorrect

Charles Howse chowse at charter.net
Sat Oct 11 14:04:22 PDT 2003


> On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 04:45 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I recently changed the hostname of one of my machines in 
> /etc/rc.conf.
> > Now my uname -v output is still showing the old name.
> > I've run uname -a here so you can see the complete output, 
> the -v stuff
> > comes after the '#0:'
> > Will this change with a rebuild?
> >
> > [root at larry ~]# uname -a
> > FreeBSD larry.howse.homeunix.net 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 
> > 4.8-RELEASE-p13
> > 

> Isn't that output the box it was compiled on and not the current name 
> of your host?

The current name of my host is larry.howse.homeunix.net.
The current build was done before I changed the hostname, ergo, my
original question...
Won't it change to #0: <different date> CDT 2003
root at larry.howse.homeunix.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
the next time I do a buildworld?




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