FC5 boot process, sendmail and sm_client???

[Deepak Shrestha]

On 7/27/06, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Deepak Shrestha schrieb:
>
> > I have following in my /etc/hosts
> > ===========
> > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > # that require network functionality will fail.
> > 192.168.1.2     webcomp
> > ===========
>
> As Paul already pointed out, it is very important to keep the localhost
> mapping entry in the file. Seems you erased it completely. So readd it:
>
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
> >
> > if I check hostname and domainname it returns
> > hostname is "webcomp"
> > domainname is (none)
> >
> > hostname and domainname are both same in dynamic IP and static IP
> > setting only IP is changed. Dynamic IP settings works perfectly
> > without delay. what should I do next?
>
> Set HOSTNAME= in /etc/sysconfig/network to be something like
> "webcomp.home.locallan". Then adjust the corresponding line in
> /etc/hosts to be
>
> 192.168.1.2       webcomp.home.locallan     webcomp
>
> Sendmail will be lucky again using 192.168.1.2 as your static IP.
>
> Alexander

I added the required line and now its working perfectly. Thanks a  lot
for the help. I don't know how it is deleted because I never touched
the files myself. I used the "Network Configuration" grapical tool and
I can't remember deleting any entries there?

Thanks again  :-)