[16927] in athena10
Re: Postfix FQDN requested during installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Mon Oct 28 00:44:31 2019
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:44:19 -0700
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: Anthony Valenti Grebe <agrebe@mit.edu>
CC: debathena <debathena@mit.edu>
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Hi Anthony,
There's a few points to cover here, so let me take them separately:
This FQDN you're being asked for is part of the Postfix configuration, a
mail transfer agent; it's unlikely to affect your ability to use AFS and/or
zephyr. (Incidentally, my recollection is that most debathena systems
ended up with exim, not postfix, but I could be misremembering. I believe
there's also a question in the installer about debathena-msmtp-mta, for
which a "yes" answer would probably avoid the postfix question.)
The "correct" FQDN value to use depends on where your machine is located
and who is providing the network for it. For example, machines in the
W20-575 athena cluster had hostnames like w20-575-3.mit.edu because IS&T
assigned them to be that way.
Could you say a bit more about what procedure you're using to run the
installation? In particular, what "metapackage" (like debathena-login or
debathena-login-graphical) do you pick, and are you getting the installer
script itself from https://debathena.mit.edu/install-debathena.sh ?
Thanks,
Ben
On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 12:02:24PM -0400, Anthony Valenti Grebe wrote:
> I'm trying to install debathena from the installer scripts online, but
> during the installation, I'm asked to specify the fully qualified domain
> name I want to use for Postfix and other programs. (The default option
> appears to be "localhost.") What should I put here?
> I've tried to run the installer several times without success (after
> installation I'm never able to access my files in the AFS system or send
> Zephyrs, even after typing renew or kinit), so presumably I'm doing
> something wrong, which might have been guessing the wrong domain name to
> use here.
> Thank you for any help you can give me here.
> Best,
> Anthony
