Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:13:47 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to set hostname for a machine intended to become company's mail server ? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=G7jAmppVrZh2qTzbQjR5Z9pL=DkSaEpf%2BAFEoCUthnw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP11326F5465332FFB2AEF72EF61C0@phx.gbl> References: <BLU436-SMTP11326F5465332FFB2AEF72EF61C0@phx.gbl>
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Hi, Is that name in DNS ? You should at least populate it in /etc/hosts so when xorg goes to look up the name, it doesn't get upset that the name doesn't map to any IP addresses. -a On 6 March 2015 at 00:44, Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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