svn commit: r199127 - head/share/man/man5
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 10 03:18:50 UTC 2009
Author: dougb
Date: Tue Nov 10 03:18:49 2009
New Revision: 199127
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199127
Log:
Add a note about no hostname leading to "Amnesiac" on the console
The text is inspired by the PR, but more in line with the existing text
PR: docs/140434
Submitted by: Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>
Modified:
head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
Modified: head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Tue Nov 10 01:12:00 2009 (r199126)
+++ head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 Tue Nov 10 03:18:49 2009 (r199127)
@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ If
.Xr dhclient 8
is used to set the hostname via DHCP,
this variable should be set to an empty string.
+If this value remains unset when the system is done booting
+your console login will display a default hostname of
+.Dq Amnesiac.
.It Va nisdomainname
.Pq Vt str
The NIS domain name of this host, or
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