I am having trouble installing exim; when it fails it says:
hostname: Unknown host
hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code 256
I do not have a registered domain name; I suppose I need to set something fake
like home.net.
The man page for hostname says I can query but not set the domainname, and
suggests using /etc/hosts and/or /etc/host.conf, but the man pages for those
are not quite explicit enough for me to get something to work. I am using dhcp
(pump, actually) to get an IP, so I can't hard-code an IP anywhere. I have
tried quite a few combinations in the config files w/o luck; hostname --fqdn
always fails. Currently (failing) I have
====== /etc/resolv.conf =========
domain home.net
nameserver 192.168.2.1
====== /etc/host.conf ===========
order hosts,bind
multi on
====== /etc/hosts =============
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
======= /etc/pump.conf ==========
domainsearch "home.net"
device eth0 {
nodns
}
====== /etc/network/interfaces ======
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
leasetime 10000
hostname dell330
========== /etc/hostname ========
dell330
Thanks for any suggestions!
Will
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