wrong name on emails

[Mike Gruen]

M.D. DeWar wrote:

>Hello,
>Thanks.
>Yes it reports the correct hostname.
>And its correct in the rc.conf.
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>Here is a copy of the FROM on a email sent by the cron
>root at badboy.wirelesscommunitynetworks.com (Cron Daemon)
>
>and hostname shows
>spiderman.wirelesscommunitynetworks.com
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This could be either an /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file issue... or an 
/etc/hosts issue.

>Mark
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Micheal Patterson" <micheal at tsgincorporated.com>
>To: "M.D. DeWar" <mark at s-wit.net>; <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:13 AM
>Subject: Re: wrong name on emails
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "M.D. DeWar" <mark at s-wit.net>
>>To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:03 AM
>>Subject: wrong name on emails
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>>>Hello,
>>>When I first setup from FreeBSD 4.8 box I gave it one name, badboy. Then
>>>later to due to dns issues I changed it to match DNS. Now when I get an
>>>email from the box it says root at badboy.domain.com instead of the new
>>>      
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>name.
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>>>I searched every file I can think of. rc.local,rc.conf , resolv.conf and
>>>other files but with no luck.
>>>I tried egrep -iR "badboy" /
>>>to find it but it was taking a long long time. So killed it.
>>>Were do I find it and change it or is it permanently at the original
>>>hostname.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Use the command hostname to verify that it's using the new name. If it
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>shows
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>>the old name there, do a hostname <new name> to correct it.. Provided it's
>>correct in your rc.conf file as well.
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>>Micheal Patterson
>>TSG Network Administration
>>405-917-0600
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