Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:07:24 -0700 From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net> To: Dark Star <dead_line@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server name QDN Message-ID: <35c231bf05083113074a708168@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY20-F15C467FC98763974EF42B49AA10@phx.gbl>
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On 8/31/05, Dark Star <dead_line@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Well, Im on FreeBSD 4.8-R Fresh installation, and i have a simple > question > Lets say I named my box Xname so in rc.conf the hostname ="xname" > > When the machine start, the logs will start to complain /var/log/messages > > xname sm-mta[157]: unable to qualify my own domain name (xname) -- using > short name On FreeBSD, the hostname should be set to the entire fully qualified domain name -- hostname="xname.xwhatever.com" in /etc/rc.conf . hostname -s will return the first portion of the fqdn.home | help
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