From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 03:30:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED63637B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arthur.nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E153B43F75 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@arthur.nitro.dk) Received: by arthur.nitro.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2599710BF8C; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:30:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:30:12 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Mike Makonnen Message-ID: <20030709103010.GA405@nitro.dk> References: <3F0B4513.2050808@twcny.rr.com> <20030708234257.GA88589@kokeb.ambesa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030708234257.GA88589@kokeb.ambesa.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: Tom Parquette cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not set. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:30:19 -0000 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.07.08 19:42:57 -0400, Mike Makonnen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been getting the message "/etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not= =20 > > set" every time I boot one of my machines. > > It is a 5.1-CURRENT system but I have not updated since June 15. > >=20 > > I have been ignoring this for some time because I have been trying to= =20 > > get DDNS to work. > > I thought it was related to my DDNS problem. Now that I have DDNS=20 > > working (finally) I was supprised to see the message still appearing. > >=20 >=20 > It says domainname(1) for a reason :-) > ^^^^ >=20 > Domainname has nothing to do with DNS, it's talking about your NIS > domain name. You are trying to use one of the yp* daemons without > first setting your NIS domain. You need domainname=3D"..." in rc.conf. Just in case someone searches the archives later... The variable is actually called nisdomainname. The domainname variable is only referenced in rc.d/network, which I don't think is used anymore? --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/C+6y8kocFXgPTRwRAuN+AKC1bK1UNF9l7CkqcvmB4cjSRw/r+QCgwEny PPOtXMNf8aNzQSfl8+m4Mo4= =NlNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--