From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 7:23:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13F4537B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01-srv.alltel.net (mta01.alltel.net [166.102.165.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530CF43E4A for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cd9@buffalo.edu) Received: from selvirjin.alltel.net ([166.102.201.118]) by mta01-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20020824142326.KRAU19665.mta01-srv.alltel.net@selvirjin.alltel.net> for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:23:26 -0500 Received: from dragon by selvirjin.alltel.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17iboS-000052-00; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:22:52 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:22:52 -0400 From: "C. A. Daelhousen" To: bill Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: what is the correct format for hostname= Message-ID: <20020824102252.B211@selvirjin.alltel.net> Mail-Followup-To: bill , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3D675601.2602.A7BA849@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D675601.2602.A7BA849@localhost>; from bill@TechServSys.com on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400, bill wrote: > when sysinstall configured my system initially it set > serve/TechServSys.com as the hostname, but sendmail was unhappy with > that so I tried changing it to serve.TechServSys.com and sendmail was > happier but httpd is unhappy saying that it can not get hostname. > > which is correct ? > > -bill > serve.TechServSys.com is correct, but there's more places to set it than /etc/rc.conf. Also make sure that these files are in order: /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf -- ..: Chad Daelhousen == cd9@buffalo.edu :.........: sig v3.1 :... : Programming for 10 +/- 2 years (50 +/- 10% of a lifetime) : :.............Perl will be the first to implement mind reading.: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message