Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 22:49:07 -0400 From: Tom Parquette <tparquet@twcny.rr.com> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not set. Message-ID: <3F0B82A3.1000507@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030708234257.GA88589@kokeb.ambesa.net> References: <3F0B4513.2050808@twcny.rr.com> <20030708234257.GA88589@kokeb.ambesa.net>
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Mike Makonnen wrote: >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. > > (sigh) OK. I feel stupid... I was looking all over for a DNS problem. :-/ I commented out the entry to enable the nis client and that took care of it. I must have selected it by mistake when I built this system. Thanks...
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