Re: set domain name in Debian `
On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:29:35PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> 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?
I have (control over) a bunch of computers, and they're not all configured
the same. The machine I believe you refer to is this one:
wooledg@wooledg:~$ hostname
wooledg
wooledg@wooledg:~$ hostname -f
wooledg
This is a dual-boot Windows/Debian workstation on my desk at work.
Here's the /etc/hosts:
wooledg@wooledg:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 wooledg
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
The hostname is defined in DNS (originally I just let it have a dynamic
IP address and dealt with that, but later I arranged for it to have
a non-changing IP address, for reasons beyond the scope of this email;
but in all cases, DNS always had a working "A" record).
It looks like this one is running exim:
wooledg@wooledg:~$ ps -ef | grep exim
Debian-+ 949 1 0 Nov14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
wooledg 10865 2007 0 07:53 pts/4 00:00:00 grep exim
I never saw any errors like the one you showed, perhaps because exim
used my default search domain (from /etc/resolv.conf) and found a sane
DNS configuration, or perhaps because this machine is in a very simple
"send to smarthost only" mode. I don't really know exim very well.
I have other systems that run qmail (locally installed), and even one
that runs sendmail (part of the hosting provider's original image,
and I never bothered to replace it). The only major MTA with which I
have absolutely no experience at all is postfix.
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