From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 19:13:49 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 074FBEF6 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF9CD3E4 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 19:13:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iecat20 with SMTP id at20so34640977iec.6 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:13:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7mzVIuzSnPmGpa0ScbxTC59sWa6E/9I7oIpi+uB8Tj0=; b=empIphQNWWJuh20oZGx8stTxOyMbRlUFy+tBhpGwaDdWHsunaTA1t8nXqPJxlH2Fe6 f1pOLCQbkF9Hi6EXEc2maxmkdirRm2TsM3gQz7dvghZgdx24tLRoMgia4pp+3n3aXbZC +dC+FaPp5RPWyRPwoZCpGkVOXJd5eZcEmCl+zWjwyosHWoi3XbZ/GVIJOO4fm6Om5iGt JmtB34ZJVSmomshdz75eH+Xz4wGySXawAg8FTdDXMYVf4mcA21LN18wym7/Y5GTpLZf5 w+oQfhr0tv+92EoBtRr4LZRzV07lcd3OlhjtGR1EyqqTPZ9DRDfGxSPXUJwJspS4RgmR o9RQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.43.201 with SMTP id y9mr29771289igl.6.1425669228024; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:13:48 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.17.66 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:13:47 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:13:47 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: WVABBzQm-J3b79b1bDYE-2HzIUQ Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to set hostname for a machine intended to become company's mail server ? From: Adrian Chadd To: Manish Jain Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 19:13:49 -0000 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 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"