From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 16:43:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF7237B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:43:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool-151-200-10-97.res.east.verizon.net (pool-141-156-181-146.esr.east.verizon.net [141.156.181.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C848843FD7 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 16:42:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Received: from kokeb.ambesa.net (localhost [IPv6:::1]) id h68Ngw0G088740; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:42:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Received: (from mtm@localhost) by kokeb.ambesa.net (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h68NgweI088739; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:42:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mtm@identd.net) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 19:42:57 -0400 From: Mike Makonnen To: Tom Parquette Message-ID: <20030708234257.GA88589@kokeb.ambesa.net> References: <3F0B4513.2050808@twcny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F0B4513.2050808@twcny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/5.1-CURRENT (i386) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not set. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 23:43:01 -0000 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: > Hi, > I have been getting the message "/etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not > set" every time I boot one of my machines. > It is a 5.1-CURRENT system but I have not updated since June 15. > > I have been ignoring this for some time because I have been trying to > get DDNS to work. > I thought it was related to my DDNS problem. Now that I have DDNS > working (finally) I was supprised to see the message still appearing. > It says domainname(1) for a reason :-) ^^^^ Domainname has nothing to do with DNS, it's talking about your NIS domain name. You are trying to use one of the yp* daemons without first setting your NIS domain. You need domainname="..." in rc.conf. Cheers. -- Mike Makonnen | GPG-KEY: http://www.identd.net/~mtm/mtm.asc mtm@identd.net | D228 1A6F C64E 120A A1C9 A3AA DAE1 E2AF DBCC 68B9 mtm@FreeBSD.Org| FreeBSD - The Power To Serve