why I can't change my hostname?

[tal]

hey all
i on freebsd server
i try to change the hostname, like this:
hostname mydomainname.com

but i get this error

hostname: sethostname: Operation not permitted

thanks.

 

[UbiquityClint]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-core-configuration.html

Should fix the issue.

Clint

 

[tal]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-core-configuration.html

Should fix the issue.

Clint

hey,
what i should to do with this ?
i dont understand, sorry

 

[tal]

someone? help?

 

[floyd]

What part of the link do you not understand? The part where you have to edit the rc.conf file? Do you not know how to edit a file?

 

[tal]

sure!
i'll tell you what i understood and if i have a mistake, please tell me.
so, i have to create a file - rc.conf.site
and write in this file

defaultrouter="10.1.1.254"
saver="daemon"
blanktime="100"

and edit the rc.conf:

/etc/rc.conf.site
hostname="node15.example.com"
network_interfaces="fxp0 lo0"
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.1.1.1"

am i right?
after i edited the files, what i have to do?


thanks!

 

[floyd]

I believe you quoted the examples correctly.

No look at the first 2 sentences:

The principal location for system configuration information is within /etc/rc.conf. This file contains a wide range of configuration information, principally used at system startup to configure the system.

These files are read at startup. So in order to make use of these files you need to reboot. Make sure you have somebody there physically at the machine in case something goes wrong.

I don't use freebsd. I am just telling you the site said.

 

[nobaloney]

Have you tried changing the hostname through the DirectAdmin control panel? Once DirectAdmin is installed simply changing it in the OS isn't enough if you want DirectAdmin to run properly.

Jeff