Uname -v incorrect

[Charles Howse]

> On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:45:14PM -0500, 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
> > #0: Wed Oct  8 09:38:04 CDT 2003
> > root at larry.howse.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
> 
> The hostname displayed by 'uname -v' is not the name of the host the
> kernel is running on.
> It is the name of the host the kernel was built on.
> A rebuild will indeed change the hostname displayed by 'uname -v'.

Thanks!