From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 18:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963A537BECB for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goldtech@worldpost.com) Received: from 209-122-221-119.s627.tnt3.nyw.ny.dialup.rcn.com ([209.122.221.119] helo=beefstew) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 12z8Dg-0005dU-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:31:53 -0400 Message-ID: <000b01bfcf57$1da59b00$77dd7ad1@beefstew> From: "leegold" To: Subject: unqualified hostname Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 21:32:44 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (newbie - ) when i installed i apparently used an unqualified hostname. i used "ham_on_rye" as the hostname and never entered any thing in the domain field. i have since learned that underscores "_" are not recommeneded and that i could as well said said "ham-on-rye.local w/better results. durring boot-up i get some comments from FreeBSD - "unqualified host name", "sleeping for retry", "unable to qualify host name", then - "using short name". Also I see something to the effect that sendmail is complaining too. so how can i permantly correct this problem? i assume there's a file i can edit. or, i have tried /stand/sysinstall but haven't been able to effect a change.(?) THANKS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message