From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 20:07:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CEA18C98 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A26DF98 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 20:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-199.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s89K7teC002234 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:07:56 -0500 Message-ID: <540F5F92.7020009@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:14:10 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: minor sendmail issue .... References: <540F26AC.7040309@hiwaay.net> <20140909182735.2bb371c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F3613.8060608@hiwaay.net> <20140909213532.34f02807.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F5B52.5070300@hiwaay.net> <20140909215533.06581187.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140909215533.06581187.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:07:57 -0000 On 09/09/14 14:55, Polytropon wrote: > 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. :-) Roger that, I do have localhost set, should it have a 'kabini1.local' alias as well ? -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.