Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 15:00:42 -0500 (CDT) From: dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507145621.540B-100000@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <6895.831505704@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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> > You need to recompile sysinstall to match your version of FreeBSD, if I > > recall correctly 2.1.0 made some serious changes from 2.0.5 that caused alot > > of the 2.0.5 bins to fail. Either that or install the compat libs. > > Nope. The exec format doesn't change between releases, and sysinstall > is statically linked, so it's not a library problem. He most likely > removed ``options gzip'' from his kernel. > > Gary yeah, that is what i did it works fine now, however the mail problem is still bugging me... >> 128.42.161.30 >> >> also, if i try mailing to any user locally (i use pine to do so) >> and use the ip numbers instead of address (pine root@128.42.161.30 >> instead of pine root@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu) it will not work- >> the mail gets returned with the following: >> ----- The following addresses had delivery problems ----- >> root@128.42.161.30 (unrecoverable error) >> >> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >> 550 root@128.42.161.30... Host unknown (Name server: 128.42.161.30: host >> not found) >> >> anyway, again, i get the previous from "pine root@128.42.161.30" after i >> send the mail. >> >> thanx for any comments >> > > >My first guess is that you have your hostname/domainname set incorrectly or >not set at all. > >Brett i *think* they are set correctly, here is a layout of my /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.lovett.rice.edu localhost 128.42.161.30 lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu lovett-2030 am i looking in the wrong place?
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