server name

michael Christie michael at christie.org.au
Mon Feb 21 10:29:18 GMT 2005


I see what you mean, that may not help me as my host name is an ip
address running in a jail. There for my host name at the command prompt
is 192#  if I change the ip to a name in the /etc/rc.conf  I do not
think the jail will run.

Please advise

thanks

Michael


On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 10:16 +0000, Rus Foster wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, michael Christie wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Can any one please tell me how to change the name of the computer at the
> > command prompt ie  my name#
> > 
> 
> Run "hostname mynewname.com". You will also want to updatee /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Rus


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