minor sendmail issue ....

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Sep 9 19:55:39 UTC 2014


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. :-)



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