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Re: hostname is not correct



On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 23:23:00 -0400
Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson@verizon.net> wrote:

> On Wed, July 16 at  9:12 PM EDT
> "Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@pe.net> wrote:
> 
> >When I attempt to send mail, from the command line, the address after
> >the "@" is knoppix. 
> >
> >After I installed knoppinx to the hard drive, I've edited
> >/etc/hostname to show the machine name "riverside".
> >
> >Everything I've looked at inside the /etc/ directory has no more
> >mention of KNOPPIX.
> >
> >In the /etc/defaultdomain, I have my domain inserted there.
> >
> >Any other tips, and/or pointers would be greatly appreciated
> 
> Not sure if this is relevant - but what does the command hostname
> return at this point?  You can also #cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname to
> see what it says - and to change it w/o rebooting echo "riverside" >>
> /proc/sys/kernel/hostname (not sure if this is really advisable,
> though).  What MUA are you using that puts "@knoppix" ?  Is it gnu
> mailutils?
> 
> Shawn Lamson
> shawn.lamson@verizon.net

Thanks. It shows my machine name. I'll keep looking around.

The MUA is mixmaster.

Again, thank you.

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