further to this i've dicovered something interesting: on the box that was upgraded to 9.0 hostname works like this: $ hostname sigerson.excession $ hostname -f sigerson.excession $ hostname -d excession
but on the clean 9.0 install it works like this: $ hostname mycroft $ hostname -f mycroft.excession $ hostname -d excession now clearly in both cases the system is aware of the fqdn since $ hostname -f produces it, but in the former example $ hostname also produces it. checking boot messages shows the the upgraded box says 'setting hostname: sigerson.excession' as it boots, while the fresh box shows 'setting hostname: mycroft' as it boots, i suspect this is related but as related in my previous posts i have specifed the hostname including domain to the system in all the ways i know how, incl all the ways i specified it to the upgraded system now postfix is working as i altered main.cf but there still seems to be something fishy here, who knows what else might be broken over the hostname issue? bascule On Tuesday 21 Jan 2003 7:22 am, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > postfix calculates the domainname from your hostname. so a hostname like > my.hostname.com results in a domainname hostname.com. if your hostname is > simply my, there is no way to get the domain name. so either specify your > hostname as bascule.excession or change the entries mydomain and > myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf. -- "`The best way to get a drink out of a Vogon is to stick your finger down his throat...'" -- The Book, on one of the Vogon's social inadequacies.
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