-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 bascule wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:18:04PM +0000 : > hi todd, > when i checked /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts was a copy of /etc/hosts > explicitly specifiying it in main.cf worked, in fact expliclty specifying > anything in main.cf works as i simply uncommented out the examples they had > there, what bothers me is what was bothering praedor last year, the > documentation - inthis case the file itself - specifically says that the > default is obtained from gethostname() and as far as i can see that does > indeed give the full name for this box, yet postfix wasn't having any of it!
I suggest that gethostname() is using exclusively DNS resolving instead of accepting what's in /etc/hosts or /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts, but I'm not authoritative on that. > so the question remains for me, is there any way that my box is not set up > correctly compared to previous installs where postfix worked out of the box? > i don't expect you to be able to answer that short of coming round my house > and having a look! :) Mail me the plane ticket :) Blue skies... Todd - -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ Hey, I'm perfectly reasonable once you realize I'm right. -- John Buttery on Mutt Users ML Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-2mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LE6rlp7v05cW2woRAp1iAJ93Gp6ASowndEHpd0+/6Jje3Cz2sQCgw69a fhR/MBsiwNvWMxdPkRpJYLU= =qZoK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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