Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 11:28:06 +0200 From: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se> References: <99051900195703.00944@tw.oden.se> <19990519092757.I89091@freebie.lemis.com>
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> On Wednesday, 19 May 1999 at 0:12:29 +0200, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > Hi. > > During installation, I was asked for a name of my domain (or the name of the > > machine?). > > The default was something like domain.mydomain.my***. > > Of course I put in something else. > > But when I now have managed (with some help of You) to > > get FBSD and X to work, my machine is still called > > mydomain.etc.etc. And I have searched a lot for how to change this, but... Greg Lehey wrote: > People have told you how to change it. I haven't seen anybody explain > what it means: this domain name is visible world-wide, and it needs to > be registered. If you don't have a domain name, leave it empty. First I am to Thank every of You who gave me an answer. Now Greg, I'm not shure what You are talking about. Do You mean a name in the Internet like the name of my ISP, ettnet.se? I mean the name which comes up during boot, just before the login prompt. I'm to login to a machine with the name mydomain.my.etc. Erlier I had Caldera Base 1.1 on my HD. During installation I got this question where I could change the name my.mydomain.etc to what I wanted. I didn't know and understand it at the time so I typed tw. The result was a very slow boot. The machine stopped at sendmail for a long while and then continued. I was told that that was because sendmail tried to find this name and wasn't pleased with my tiny "tw". It wanted a long name like this my.mydomain.etc with these two periods. Sendmail continued the boot after a time out. I changed the name to a longer one, end sendmail was pleased and booted up fast. In BSD i changed the name somewhere, can't recall where, and sendmail is stopping like in Linux. Then, after a minute or so, sendmail seems to time out and continue. Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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