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| author | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-09-02 05:12:03 +0000 |
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| committer | obrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-09-02 05:12:03 +0000 |
| commit | 00758b4eb08a8db6c84ad0aac95eb1034189fc51 (patch) | |
| tree | e608758d3122b15f6eb60af983041e17ab7df6d8 /share/man/man5 | |
| parent | fa030113298048d5207543f2078e7033cb30e6b8 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-00758b4eb08a8db6c84ad0aac95eb1034189fc51.zip FreeBSD-src-00758b4eb08a8db6c84ad0aac95eb1034189fc51.tar.gz | |
- Don't use contractions
- discuss the setting of hostname in the face of DHCP
Submitted by: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> (DHCP part)
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 index 04666ce..c749441 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 @@ -126,11 +126,13 @@ daemon. .It Ar hostname (str) The Fully Qualified Domain Name of your host on the network. This should almost certainly be set to something meaningful, even if -you've no network connected. +you have no network connected. If you are using +.Xr dhclient 8 +to set your hostname via DHCP, this variable should be set to an empty string. .It Ar nisdomainname (str) The NIS domainname of your host, or .Ar NO -if you're not running NIS. +if you are not running NIS. .It Ar dhcp_program (str) Path to the DHCP client progam (/sbin/dhclient, the ISC DHCP client, is the default). @@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ is the default). .It Ar firewall_enable (bool) Set to .Ar NO -if you don't want have firewall rules loaded at startup, or +if you do not want have firewall rules loaded at startup, or .Ar YES if you do. If set to |
