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Date:      Tue, 9 Sep 2014 21:55:33 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: minor sendmail issue ....
Message-ID:  <20140909215533.06581187.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <540F5B52.5070300@hiwaay.net>
References:  <540F26AC.7040309@hiwaay.net> <20140909182735.2bb371c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F3613.8060608@hiwaay.net> <20140909213532.34f02807.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F5B52.5070300@hiwaay.net>

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On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:56:02 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> Very well, I wasn't aware you could have multiple entries in the hosts 
> files. I have been sloppy about official name & aliases for yeasrs now, 
> might account for this & other odd but harmless behavior on my LAN :-/ 
> .... I will make the changes as you recommend this shortly. The 
> 'kabini1.local' can be in hosts but not rc.conf ?

It can and should. Set

	hostname="kabini1.local"

in /etc/rc.conf, and accordingly

	192.168.0.27	kabini1.local kabini1

in /etc/hosts. Don't miss setting localhost to 127.0.0.1,
it will make sendmail happy. :-)



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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