On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 07:26:27PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 11 Feb 2021, at 12:56, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:53PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > >> On 11 Feb 2021, at 04:45, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > >>> Yes, I think this is what it comes down to, *something* needs to be > >>> changed for each system. I was just hoping that postfix could use > >>> something that was there already (the systems do know their names and > >>> domains already). > >> > >> You keep saying this, but the evidence you provide shows they do not. > >> > >> If you set hostname on each system to the FQDN then everything works. > >> Single > >> main.cf Gile with no per-machine changes. This is what you said you want, > >> and yet you seem to be very resident to setting your machines' hostnames. > >> > > Yes, exactly! If I "set hostname on each system" it's one more thing > > I have to do on every system. > > OK, but the I something you should be doing already, IMO. What is the point > of having a FQDN if you are not using it? And you are already editing > /etc/hosts > (incorrectly), so you're already doing something on every system. > > It seems like what you want is "This should work how I want and I should > not have to do nothing at all to make it work"? > > Again, set FQDN on your machines and everything works as it should, even > things you have not though about. > If only! :-) If I set the FQDN in /etc/hostname it won't be "right for everything else" I'm afraid. I have had several long, long discussions in two other places (the dnsmasq mailing list and another dealing with resolvconf), it's a can of worms.
The fewer places that I have to set the hostname and domain the better, ideally it should be possible to set them in just one place but that isn't going to happen (ever?), so minimising what one has to do seems a reasonable idea to me. -- Chris Green
