From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 28 9:53:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.vaxxine.com (alpha.vaxxine.com [209.5.212.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF5237B400; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 09:53:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (ppp259.digi-t3.st-cath.niagara.net [209.5.218.5]) by alpha.vaxxine.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA07233; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:48:41 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200202281748.MAA07233@alpha.vaxxine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Paul C. Boyle" To: Marcia Barrett Nice Subject: Re: Newbie hostname issue. Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:49:51 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <200202280145.UAA28037@alpha.vaxxine.com> <02022721134703.00331@Rozinante> In-Reply-To: <02022721134703.00331@Rozinante> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On February 27, 2002 09:13 pm, Marcia Barrett Nice wrote: > 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... Thanks Marcia I found my problem. When I added the entry in the hosts file I only gave it a machine name and not a phony FQDM. So I put one in and also an alias after the phony FQDM. It works fine now at boot time. Windows habbits are hard to break. Must be plexi-glass. > > 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.) Well Marcia, My 4.5 install is not what you my call a pure install. Many KDE packages were not on the cd set. All I could install from the set was the bare minimum. I had to rip kppp form the 4.4 iso. The install compained a bit but it did do it. I did this from /stand/sysinstall. I managed to download kmultimedia2 and it seems to work fine. So do the games and utilities, I think I took these from the 4.4 iso. Having tried to download kdevelop and kmymoney2 they both failed. Could it be they are dependant on something I don't have installed. BTW when I was running the 4.4 iso installation i had installed kdevleop and it seemed to work for a while. I am not a programmer so I can't really comment on its worthyness. What I would like to try is get all things new KDE and start fresh. What do you think? Should I rip everything KDE out and do a fresh install or could I install on top of what I have now? > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message