[3655] in RedHat Linux List
Re: How to assign a name to the system?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Sat Nov 9 21:44:43 1996
To: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Nov 1996 15:20:31 EST."
<199611092020.PAA02182@picard.comsat.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 20:40:32 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> Wierdl Mate writes:
> > I do not have an /etc/HOSTNAME file installed under Colgate. Do I
> > need one?
>
> I found that when I didn't have this set to the machine name
> sendmail would hang on bootup. I'm not sure where else it is
> used, but it would seem to me that it must use it to get the
> FQDN. Anyone ?
I was wrong. The control panel does create an /etc/HOSTNAME file. It
must have been hosed for me during upgrade. I also had a problem with
sendmail after upgrade, but I resolved by putting my machine's name
into /etc/sendmail.cw. But maybe creating a new /etc/HOSTNAME would
have done the trick too.
So the official standpoint is that I have to put FQDN in
/etc/HOSTNAME? Or just my machine's name?
Thanks
Mate
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