Re: set domain name in Debian `
On Mon 14 Nov 2016 at 08:27:06 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> [...] So when you do your "hostname -f"
> (which I still contend is a rubbish command which serves no useful
> purpose, but it's what you seem to want, so I'll roll with it), it
> looks up "srv" in this file as a whole word/field, and finds this line
> as the first match.
>
> Therefore hostname -f writes "www.slsware.dmz" to stdout.
You asked earlier how we might even know about hostname -f and
the obvious answer is because exim emits:
"Starting MTA:hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name,
dc_minimaldns will not work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup."
if you have no domain name, but have dc_minimaldns='true' in
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
As your own hostname -f produces not dots, what approach do you
use to shut exim up, or do you just ignore (or suppress) the message?
Cheers,
David.
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