Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 22:19:38 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor sendmail issue .... Message-ID: <20140909221938.2b577581.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <540F5F92.7020009@hiwaay.net> References: <540F26AC.7040309@hiwaay.net> <20140909182735.2bb371c5.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F3613.8060608@hiwaay.net> <20140909213532.34f02807.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F5B52.5070300@hiwaay.net> <20140909215533.06581187.freebsd@edvax.de> <540F5F92.7020009@hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:14:10 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 09/09/14 14:55, Polytropon wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:56:02 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > >> Very well, I wasn't aware you could have multiple entries in the hosts > >> files. I have been sloppy about official name & aliases for yeasrs now, > >> might account for this & other odd but harmless behavior on my LAN :-/ > >> .... I will make the changes as you recommend this shortly. The > >> 'kabini1.local' can be in hosts but not rc.conf ? > > It can and should. Set > > > > hostname="kabini1.local" > > > > in /etc/rc.conf, and accordingly > > > > 192.168.0.27 kabini1.local kabini1 > > > > in /etc/hosts. Don't miss setting localhost to 127.0.0.1, > > it will make sendmail happy. :-) > > > Roger that, I do have localhost set, should it have a 'kabini1.local' > alias as well ? It doesn't seem to hurt. I have entries for my machine both for the 192.168.x.y and 127.0.0.1 IPs, and additionally localhost on 127.0.0.1. And sendmail will be pleased. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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