hostname

[Garrett Cooper]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:24 PM, eoghan wrote:

> On 19 Feb 2006, at 23:14, Randy Pratt wrote:
>
>> /etc/rc.conf should contain the hostname in the form of:
>>
>> 	hostname="mymachine.example.net"
>>
>> Some further information can be found in the Handbook:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ 
>> configtuning-core-configuration.html
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Randy
>
> Thanks
> I have changed it to "home.nathaniel"
> im getting this on boot:
> Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):  
> opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: cannot bind: Can't assign  
> requested address
> Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating  
> SMTP socket
> Feb 19 23:19:37 home sm-mta[405]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):  
> opendaemonsocket: daemon Daemon0: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting

Try something similar to nathan.localdomain if you don't have either  
an NIS or DNS domain, since localdomain's kind of like a special  
keyword AFAIK for non-domain affiliated machines.
-Garrett