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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: I got my NexT, and have questions
Keywords: NeXT, B-land
Message-ID: <69740@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 04:35:57 GMT
References: <18945@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <18945@milton.u.washington.edu> rexfelis@milton.u.washington.edu (Leif Harrison) writes:
>  1) How do you change the machine name/domain name or whatever that is
> at the top of the login window? This is a non-networked NeXT, so...

When logged in as root do the following:
# dwrite GLOBAL HostName localhost

Important: use localhost and NOT your hosts name. localhost is treated
as a special case. As long as your machine does not have a name, it
gets a default name localhost, AFTER you name your machine, localhost
works at almost all places like a variable for your hosts actual name.

 => you don't have to change all the settings just because you renamed
your machine.

Ronald
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