On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 08:52:07PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:20, Steve Langasek wrote: > > However, I've seen problems caused by the use of the short name only in > > /etc/hostname (mostly mail-related, maybe?) and I systematically change > > this to hold the FQDN on my systems. Haven't filed a bug about this, > > because I'm not sure if it's a real bug, or if this just happens to be > > the easiest kludge for working around the other symptoms I see. > Most likely, you need to fix /etc/hosts Perhaps; in which case, my objection is that /etc/hosts isn't set up sanely by default upon install. :) One way or another, I have to twiddle files (/etc/hostname, /etc/hosts) after installing a machine to make sure it properly knows who it is. It would be nice to have this handled more smoothly by default. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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