From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 4 22:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01505 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:15:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01474 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:15:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA26796; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 22:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Prevezanos cc: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_R=E9p_:_Sendmail_Problem=3F?= In-Reply-To: <199806041127060690.0015FB39@Postfach.Uni-Bielefeld.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Christoph Prevezanos wrote: > Another REALLY basic question..... > In rc.conf, do I have to enter only the local hostname (e.g. "ripley") or the full qulified domain name (e.g. "ripley.prevezanos.com"). I am a bit confused because on our IRIX6.2-boxes I just enter "ripley". > If I do so in FreeBSD sendmail tells me illegal hostname. FreeBSD expects a fully-qualified hostname. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message