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Date:      Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:15:57 -0400
From:      David Banning <David@www3.pacific-pages.com>
To:        bsd <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   problems with machine name in hosts & rc.conf
Message-ID:  <39906A7D.E0475160@www3.pacific-pages.com>

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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


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