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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.112731.13204@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 11:27:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar20.094519.24033@nntp-server.caltech.edu> jjfeiler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (John Jay Feiler) writes:

>One more dumb qustion: how do I change the name of my machine from "localhost"
>to something else.  In all the /etc/rc* scripts, it keeps telling me that 
>I shouldn't change the hostname there.

Fire up NetManager, click Local, up comes the panel for localhost
change the name there and Save.  I think a reboot panel (click
yes) appears at that point.  That's how I did it.

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