minor sendmail issue ....

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:14:10 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

It doesn't seem to hurt. I have entries for my machine
both for the 192.168.x.y and 127.0.0.1 IPs, and additionally
localhost on 127.0.0.1. And sendmail will be pleased. :-)



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