minor sendmail issue ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Tue Sep 9 20:07:57 UTC 2014


On 09/09/14 14:55, Polytropon wrote:
> 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. :-)


Roger that, I do have localhost set, should it have a 'kabini1.local' 
alias as well ?


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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