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August 7, 2001

Time for a moment of

Time for a moment of geeky happiness!
I figured out how to set the hostname on an OS X box. (For those of you who'd like to know, it seems to come from a file called /etc/hostconfig. There's a setting for hostname that is set to -AUTOMATIC- by default). This is one of my main gripes with OS X. While they have made a very usable unix for the desktop, they did do some kinda wacky things that just aren't quite standard, and it confuses this old sysadmin.

Posted by snooze at August 7, 2001 3:45 PM