From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 24 8:12:59 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 477F237B400 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:12:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (216-93-126-013.mdmmi.voyager.net [216.93.126.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A1D43E65 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 08:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@TechServSys.com) Received: from home (william [192.168.10.2]) by home.HoundsOfHeaven.com (8.8.8/SCO5) with ESMTP id LAA15303; Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:12:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "bill" To: "C. A. Daelhousen" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 11:15:21 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: what is the correct format for hostname= Message-ID: <3D676AC9.518.ACCD804@localhost> In-reply-to: <20020824102252.B211@selvirjin.alltel.net> References: <3D675601.2602.A7BA849@localhost>; from bill@TechServSys.com on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 24 Aug 2002 at 10:22, C. A. Daelhousen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400, bill wrote: > > when sysinstall configured my system initially it set > > serve/TechServSys.com as the hostname, but sendmail was unhappy with > > that so I tried changing it to serve.TechServSys.com and sendmail was > > happier but httpd is unhappy saying that it can not get hostname. > > > > which is correct ? > > > > -bill > > > > serve.TechServSys.com is correct, but there's more places to set it than > /etc/rc.conf. Also make sure that these files are in order: > > /etc/hosts > /etc/resolv.conf > Thanks Chad, I fixed them and all is well . . . for now -bill- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message