recognise this subject? poor praedor had a whole saga with this last year and now i have the same situation, i have just read the whole archived thread and i can say the following:
[root@mycroft bascule]# hostname mycroft [root@mycroft bascule]# hostname -d excession [root@mycroft bascule]# hostname -f mycroft.excession [root@mycroft bascule]# i have tried both HOSTNAME=mycroft DOMAINNAME=excession and HOSTNAME="mycroft" DOMAINNAME=excession in /etc/sysconfig/network due to ambiguity in the previous thread, also: [root@mycroft bascule]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.2 mycroft.excession mycroft [root@mycroft bascule]# oh, and i have rebooted, several times, it's worth noting that i didn't put the 'mycroft' in /etc/sysconfig/network, that was already there, as you would expect because i did a network install and specified it as part of the install due to doing an nfs install during which the automatic dns lookup of the host being installed fails and you are asked to provide the details yourself, at least it does for me because i use /etc/hosts on all my machines for local resolution so, what have i forgotten, it's clear that #hostname -f gives the required result but i still get: [root@mycroft bascule]# mail bascule Subject: test Cc: Null message body; hope that's ok [root@mycroft bascule]# send-mail: warning: My hostname mycroft is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf postdrop: warning: My hostname mycroft is not a fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf [root@mycroft bascule]# note i haven't touched ../main.cf or ../main.cf.default and i don't see why i should since i didn't touch them on a previous box i installed 9.0 on, the only difference here is that this is a clean install and the other install was an upgrade from 8.2 so if there any ideas beyond 'this is really simple man just issue #hostname mycroft.excession' and 'edit /etc/sysconfig/network' or 'edit /etc/hosts' or 'you can't be doing it right', i would be grateful to hear them bascule -- Smoke was coming out of the stricken piano. The Librarian's hands were walking through the keys like Casanunda in a nunnery. (Soul Music)
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