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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: hostname change. stupid question?
Keywords: next, hostname, localhost
Message-ID: <5925@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 91 12:48:03 GMT
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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Hi.

Again, I might have a very stupid question:
I would like to change the name of my NeXT from localhost to something
else. I thought the rc.boot script would be the proper place to do so,
but in there stands that it is NOT the place to change the hostname. So
I tried to find out how to do it with Netinfo. I was not able to make
the correct settings, instead all crashed and I had to recover my
Netinfo base. 

My problem seems to be that I do not have the Developer Library, and I
also have only the 105MB version yet (in a week I'll get another 670MB
and the extended release...

Up to now I was not able to change the hostname properly. Ok, it works
after booting, but I will change the hostname PROPERLY. What do I have
to change, and how?

Then I remember that there was a posting on how to make the NeXT show a
name during the boot-process. How was that done? And where is the
login-window tiff-file, so that I could change that as well?

	Any help would be more than appreciated, Gerhard.

PS: Remember, I have my NeXT now for 2 weeks and I know not too much of 
it yet.			G.
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