Steve Prior wrote:

> I've tried building/testing Spamassassin 3.02 as root and then as a
> regular user - both times the SPF test failed, but I've noticed that
> if I test as root the system ends up thinking its hostname is
> --fqdn.  Are there two versions of hostname around for Linux and
> only one of them has a --fqdn flag, or is it something else?

There are actually more than two.  If you are interested, read this
thread.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-10/msg00059.html

> as normal user:
> 
> t/spf.......................hostname: cannot set hostname to `--fqdn': 
> Operation not permitted

You were lucky you had not done that test as root.

Bob

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