From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 23:39:30 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 7FF8C37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dewey.paralynx.net (dewey.mindlink.net [204.174.16.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1336D43E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:39:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@rcreighton.org) Received: from [198.69.4.139] (helo=comp1.rcreighton.org) by dewey.paralynx.net with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17XFnx-0002vj-00; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:39:25 -0700 Received: from rcreighton.org (localhost.rcreighton.org [127.0.0.1]) by comp1.rcreighton.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6O6d6YY001364; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:39:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randy@rcreighton.org) Message-ID: <3D3E4B89.6070007@rcreighton.org> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:39:05 -0700 From: Randall Creighton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020630 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Cooper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sticky bit & q-mail and DHCP References: <003901c231b3$20cfee00$040a0a0a@valley.net> <000501c23215$0aa40aa0$0501a8c0@intelex> <005701c23224$f58af010$2afececd@TCOOPER> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Just wondering, but if you are hosting your own domain shouldn't you have a static ip address? or is there a way to inform dns about your ip address should it change? Randy Grant Cooper wrote: >Ok, I guess my question is, DHCP automatically fills in the host part for >me. But since I host my own domain, should I overload the tellus.ab.ca and >change it to kooper.ca. I was thinking other packages such as sendmail or >qmail would use this thinking my domain is tellus.ab.ca. I couldn't find any >info on that. > >Thanks for the 1000 I was reading up and down that man list. >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Samuel Chow" >To: "Grant Cooper" >Cc: "FreeBSD_Questions (E-mail 2)" >Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:49 AM >Subject: Re: sticky bit & q-mail and DHCP > > > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: Grant Cooper >> >> >> >>>1. I am using my home computer that uses a DHCP. In /etc/rc.conf >>>my hostname is automatically entered. I realize this is the name of >>>my computer given to me from my ISP. I purchased my domain >>>kooper.ca. Should I change the hostname in /etc/rc.conf to >>>hostname="dell.kooper.ca". If not, what would the origional host >>>name be used for? I'm sure I should change it. >>> >>> >> The short answer is it doesn't matter. >> Hostname and DNS name are quite different. While you can >> make them the same, they really don't have to be. >> When people lookup dell.kooper.ca, only the DNS >> is used. The hostname is irrelevant. >> >> >> >> >>>2. chmod +t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d >>>What does it mean by sticky bit "+ t" >>> >>> >> man chmod >> Look under the MODES section and find 1000. >> >>--- >>Samuel Chow >>cyschow@shaw.ca >> >>Segmentation Fault (core dumped) >>This message is displayed using recycled electrons. >> >> >> >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message