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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXTstation Color
Message-ID: <1441@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 91 03:30:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.094519.24033@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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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.

Change the HOSTNAME= line in /etc/hostconfig from -AUTOMATIC- to
the desired name.

					-=EPS=-