Re: System Mail

[Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>]

On 2008-04-26T15:11:22-0600, Troy Telford wrote:
> However, after I changed the hostname, I don't seem to be able to get 
> any system mail - (ie. the mdadm daemon sends root an email to announce 
> that the raid array is in a degraded state, etc).

Check the configuration files for the locally running mta (postfix, 
qmail, or whatever you have installed).  If you are delivering mail 
remotely, then you should the configuration of that mail server as well.  
In either case I would start by grep'ing for the old hostname along 
these lines

find /etc -type f|xargs grep $HOSTNAME

where $HOSTNAME is your old hostname.

> Another (trivial) issue is linuxlogo - even after apt-get purging and 
> re-installing linuxlogo, it still has the old hostname.  Is there 
> something I need to put into debconf to get it to recognize that the 
> system's hostname has changed?

I do not use linuxlogo, but suggest you review the script 
/etc/init.d/linuxlogo to see where it gets the hostname from.


/Allan