Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?
On 2009-12-29 01:47:40 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2009-12-29 00:21:45 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> > As for mail, we already appear to have an /etc/mailname file for MTAs and
> > MUAs to use for finding out the 'canonical' name of the host for message-
> > IDs and the like.
>
> /etc/mailname doesn't seem to be specified by POSIX, so that I doubt
> that all mail software uses it in practice (Mutt doesn't seem to use
> it... its way to get the FQDN is currently buggy, but that's another
> story).
BTW, the mailname(5) man page says:
The file contains only one line describing the fully qualified
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
domain name that the program wishing to get the mail name
^^^^^^^^^^^
should use (that is, everything after the @).
So, that would define the FQDN of your machine, i.e. what
"hostname -f" should return.
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