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Re: How to assign a name to the system?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anthony)
Sun Nov 10 04:06:33 1996
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 08:48:53 +0000 (GMT)
From: anthony <ac@achc.demon.co.uk>
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Wierdl Mate wrote:
> > 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
>
I have "achc.demon.co.uk" in mine, which I think is characterised as
FQDN. Like others, I found that, without this, sendmail spent a long
time looking for it on boot-up.
Anthony
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Anthony Campbell * Using Linux * London UK
email: anthony@achc.demon.co.uk or acampbell@cix.compulink.co.uk
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