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From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD woes. Help needed here! ;(
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:41:03 -0600
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
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Edit /etc/sysconfig and go down to the line where it sets your hostname.  
Enter it there.  It will then be set every time you boot up.

On 17 Jun 1996, ELEONORE WILLIAMS wrote:

> 
> After an install from a Walnut Creek CDROM, I ran the hostname script, but getty and login keep posting my hostname as "myname". I looked all over the /etc directory, but there was nothing there. Anyone?
> 


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