From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Feb 8 7:37:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7194A4203 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA79237; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA56618; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:38:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:38:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Clemmitt Sigler Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixed -- Newbie question about Netscape on Alpha. Message-ID: <20000208073824.E19335@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from siglercm@alphamb2.phys.vt.edu on Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:29:29AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 10:29:29AM -0500, Clemmitt Sigler wrote: > The problem was that osf1 didn't like my existing /etc/resolv.conf. > I've got this machine on a private home net so I don't have a > domain name assigned to it. `hostname' returns the name of the > machine but `domainname' returns the empty string. domainname(1) has nothing to do with DNS or /etc/resolv.conf. domainname(1) refers to the YP/NIS domain of a machine. OSF/1 compatibility runs fine on a machine where ``domainname'' returns nothing. > osf1 needs that domain name it seems. I simply had to add a line: > > domain madeup.name.net OR, you can use the "search" directive rather than "domain" as the search directive is often more useful. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) [Va Tech BSEE] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message