Re: /etc/hostname

[Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>]

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:20:34AM -0500, 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.

It can cause problems for other programs too - Leafnode will refuse to
run if it can't work out a fully qualified hostname for the machine and
I've seen other server software get upset in various ways.

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