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authorobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-02 05:12:03 +0000
committerobrien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>1999-09-02 05:12:03 +0000
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- Don't use contractions
- discuss the setting of hostname in the face of DHCP Submitted by: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> (DHCP part)
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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/rc.conf.58
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
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