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Special Forums IP Networking Can I change my hostname without messing things up? Post 302958243 by vincent72 on Tuesday 20th of October 2015 11:56:49 AM
Old 10-20-2015
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Originally Posted by Ultrix
So you can't just change the name of a Mac OS X computer with the hostname command? Like is there a difference between that and doing it from the System Preferences?
As explained here : Change your Mac Hostname via Terminal | OSXDaily No.
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rwall(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 rwall(1M)

NAME
rwall - write to all users over a network SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/rwall hostname... /usr/sbin/rwall -n netgroup... /usr/sbin/rwall -h hostname -n netgroup DESCRIPTION
rwall reads a message from standard input until EOF. It then sends this message, preceded by the line: Broadcast Message ... to all users logged in on the specified host machines. With the -n option, it sends to the specified network groups. OPTIONS
-n netgroup Send the broadcast message to the specified network groups. -h hostname Specify the hostname, the name of the host machine. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWrcmdc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), listen(1M), pmadm(1M), sacadm(1M), wall(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
The timeout is fairly short to allow transmission to a large group of machines (some of which may be down) in a reasonable amount of time. Thus the message may not get through to a heavily loaded machine. SunOS 5.10 6 Nov 2000 rwall(1M)
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