Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:49:51 -0500 From: "Paul C. Boyle" <paulcb_mcse@yahoo.com> To: Marcia Barrett Nice <mimerki@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie hostname issue. Message-ID: <200202281748.MAA07233@alpha.vaxxine.com> In-Reply-To: <02022721134703.00331@Rozinante> References: <200202280145.UAA28037@alpha.vaxxine.com> <02022721134703.00331@Rozinante>
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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
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