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