From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 19:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F5C37B882 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 19:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark8 (hutch-646.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.174]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id VAA05138; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:49:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <018301c001ad$6291b4a0$ae440ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: , "bsd" References: <39906A7D.E0475160@www3.pacific-pages.com> Subject: Re: problems with machine name in hosts & rc.conf Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:56:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Banning" To: "bsd" Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 3:15 PM Subject: problems with machine name in hosts & rc.conf > I have a stand-alone machine running 4.0 stable > my machine name is tracker - when I insert that both in /etc/hosts > and in /etc/rc.conf I get a sendmail [127] can't connect error > (or something like that) > When I add a period like tracker. in the hosts file, everything is fine. > > Fine at least until I run apache - it won't fire up unless I also > describe my machine as "tracker." (period after) > > Why is this so? Is my machine "tracker" or "tracker."? The only place > it does not have a period after it, is in rc.conf > The output of the command: #hostname will tell you what FBSD thinks your hostname is. I don't have any periods after my hostname in any of my config files, but I have full names, too, like xxx.yyy.com so maybe FBSD doesn't like names with no .??? after them! Josh > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message