From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 4 20:28:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from meta.lo-res.org (meta.lo-res.org [195.58.189.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2023037B41E for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 20:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chillig.lo-res.org ([62.116.8.4]) by meta.lo-res.org (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g453Sn4Q000809; Sun, 5 May 2002 05:28:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from aaron@lo-res.org) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: aaron To: Mike Squires , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: 4.6-PRERELEASE sendmail upgrade from 4.5-STABLE = fixed problem Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 05:28:24 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200205050314.g453ECg6000974@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com> In-Reply-To: <200205050314.g453ECg6000974@12-222-67-235.client.insightBB.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200205050528.24906.aaron@lo-res.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 05 May 2002 05:14, Mike Squires wrote: > I found a new way to shoot myself in the foot: > > I assume that the entry in /etc/hosts of the form > > ::1 localhost.my.domain localhost > > is the IPv6 version of localhost. If this is not correctly configured > to the machine's local domain then the version of sendmail that comes > with 4.6-PRERELEASE uses this name as the host name and, of course, > nothing can be received or sent. Hi Mike! Well, if you used mergemaster for tracking stable you might have noticed that ::1 is in the default /etc/hosts. But it sounds like this should be in UPDATING (as a requirement - just like the "smmsp" user). Otherwise I agree that sendmail should behave better :) > > Mike Squires > UN*X at home > since 1985 greetings, aaron. freebsd since 93/94 (?) :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message