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Re: legacy hostname problem



On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, wsykes.lists wrote:

> All, 
> 
> I have a Debian host that used to be called dnimail.
> I have since changed the name to mail.
> I did this by editing the /etc/host and /etc/hostname file.
> 
> when i ping dnimail i get "unknown host dnimail"
> when I ping mail i get icmp echos and replies.
> 
> the problem is when i try to send mail to a user from using teh command line 
> "mail"
>  it tries to send the mail to the user@dnimail  which obviously does not 
> exist.

Command:  su -c 'grep -r dnimail /etc 2>/dev/null | less'

~ Jesse Meyer

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