/etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not set.

[Mike Makonnen]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:26:27PM -0400, Tom Parquette wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been getting the message "/etc/rc: WARNING: domainname(1) is not 
> set" every time I boot one of my machines.
> It is a 5.1-CURRENT system but I have not updated since June 15.
> 
> I have been ignoring this for some time because I have been trying to 
> get DDNS to work.
> I thought it was related to my DDNS problem.  Now that I have DDNS 
> working (finally) I was supprised to see the message still appearing.
> 

It says domainname(1) for a reason :-)
                 ^^^^

Domainname has nothing to do with DNS, it's talking about your NIS
domain name. You are trying to use one of the yp* daemons without
first setting your NIS domain. You need domainname="..." in rc.conf.

Cheers.
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