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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 2002 10:22:52 -0400
From:      "C. A. Daelhousen" <cd9@buffalo.edu>
To:        bill <bill@TechServSys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what is the correct format for hostname=
Message-ID:  <20020824102252.B211@selvirjin.alltel.net>
In-Reply-To: <3D675601.2602.A7BA849@localhost>; from bill@TechServSys.com on Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400
References:  <3D675601.2602.A7BA849@localhost>

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On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 09:46:41AM -0400, bill wrote:
> when sysinstall configured my system initially it set
> serve/TechServSys.com as the hostname, but sendmail was unhappy with 
> that so I tried changing it to serve.TechServSys.com and sendmail was 
> happier but httpd is unhappy saying that it can not get hostname.
> 
> which is correct ?
> 
> -bill
> 

serve.TechServSys.com is correct, but there's more places to set it than
/etc/rc.conf. Also make sure that these files are in order:

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf

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