Uname -v incorrect

Lucas Holt luke at foolishgames.com
Sat Oct 11 13:53:21 PDT 2003


Isn't that output the box it was compiled on and not the current name 
of your host?

On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 04:45 PM, Charles Howse wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently changed the hostname of one of my machines in /etc/rc.conf.
> Now my uname -v output is still showing the old name.
> I've run uname -a here so you can see the complete output, the -v stuff
> comes after the '#0:'
> Will this change with a rebuild?
>
> [root at larry ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD larry.howse.homeunix.net 4.8-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 
> 4.8-RELEASE-p13
> #0: Wed Oct  8 09:38:04 CDT 2003
> root at larry.howse.no-ip.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  i386
>
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
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