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Subject: Re: server name QDN
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On 8/31/05, Dark Star <dead_line@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>=20
>    Well, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Fresh installation, and i have a simple
> question
>    Lets say I named my box Xname so in rc.conf the hostname =3D"xname"
>=20
>    When the machine start, the logs will start to complain /var/log/messa=
ges
>=20
>    xname sm-mta[157]: unable to qualify my own domain name (xname) -- usi=
ng
> short name

On FreeBSD, the hostname should be set to the entire fully qualified
domain name -- hostname=3D"xname.xwhatever.com" in /etc/rc.conf .
hostname -s will return the first portion of the fqdn.