Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:13:47 -0500 From: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@yahoo.com> To: "Paul C. Boyle" <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie hostname issue. Message-ID: <02022721134703.00331@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <200202280145.UAA28037@alpha.vaxxine.com> References: <200202280145.UAA28037@alpha.vaxxine.com>
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Redirected to -questions before someone yells at us for being off-topic... ;-) What I have always done in your shoes is give the box a hostname. This hostname isn't registed anywhere other than on your computer. It shouldn't be used for anything other than your internal workings. But it will make the box quit hanging to look for a hostname. I suspect here on -questions someone with a bit more expertise can actually give you a better suggestion... I've tried to install kdevelop from ports a couple of times. It hasn't worked yet for me. I have to admit that I didn't care enough to do anything about it, but now you have two reports of it not installing properly. (Similar error messages, though it's been long enough since I last tried that I cannot guarantee them to be identical.) Hope this helps, Marci On Wednesday 27 February 2002 08:46 pm, Paul C. Boyle wrote on Newbie hostname issue.: | I have had problems with prior installs with sendmail. | Problem being, when I add a nic card to connect to my other computer, | things start to go screwy. Right now I am woking from a fresh install of | 4.5. i know when i configue the nic card sendmail is going to start doing | its funky thing. At boot time the sequence hangs at sendmail looking for | hostname or could not resolve hostname. I know it is doing this because it | should. But how can I configure my machine with a name to satisfy all | parties concerned. ie. little daemons. My computer is my workstation with | only a dial up at 33.6, using ppp. This works for me. | I like to play cd's while i work, check email, news groups, check gkrellm | for nifty info, surf of course and the all importan Setiathome. But most of | all study the wokings of FreeBSD. | So I want to learn Sendmail, Apache, Mysql, Squid, Jail, DNS, heck you name | it I want to learn it. | What I need to know is how should I set up my machine or hostname with out | a DNS server? Or should I or could I install DNS to satisfy my Sendmail | issue without being connected to the outside world? | I am all ears. | | Another issue just came up. | While I was typeing this email up I was installing kdevelop from the ports | tree. It started fine but I just got some errors. | And here is the tail of the build. Any help on this would be great. | | gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 | gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/devel/kdevelop/work/kdevelop-2.0.2' | gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 | *** Error code 2 | | Stop in /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop. | *** Error code 1 | | Stop in /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop. | *** Error code 1 | | Stop in /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop. | | root | 03:23:39 | Wed Feb 27 | /usr/ports/devel/kdevelop | 2.05a.0 | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- So why, pray, sign anything as long as every word, letter, penstroke, paperspace is a perfect signature of its own? - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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