From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 08:45:52 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 03668987 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:45:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU004-OMC4S13.hotmail.com (blu004-omc4s13.hotmail.com [65.55.111.152]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.outlook.com", Issuer "MSIT Machine Auth CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B2B05685 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 08:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU436-SMTP113 ([65.55.111.137]) by BLU004-OMC4S13.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(7.5.7601.22751); Fri, 6 Mar 2015 00:44:44 -0800 X-TMN: [KUvES71qklAm2kuFPiMegpyCcQIltA1V] X-Originating-Email: [bourne.identity@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 14:14:35 +0530 From: Manish Jain User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to set hostname for a machine intended to become company's mail server ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Mar 2015 08:44:41.0527 (UTC) FILETIME=[C99D4C70:01D057E9] 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: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:45:52 -0000 Hi, I am setting a FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) machine for a company. This machine is to provide all important services including a mail server and printing services. The company's mail service is currently hosted by an external provider, who also looks after DNS. At installation time, I set the machine name to roundabout.freebsd10dot1.amd64 When I starting work on setting up a mail server (yet to choose from Postfix/Qmail), I thought it would be better to change the hostname to freebsd10dot1.roundabout.com When I did this and rebooted, I found that the X server fails to start. There are some lines in /var/log/Xorg.log complaining about invalid configuration in xorg.conf.d, but nothing much more except for a few control characters like Ctrl-O and Ctrl-B What could be the problem here ? -- Regards Manish Jain