sendmail problem

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Les Mikesell wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 11:14, Mike.Kent at indystar.com wrote:
>> Yes, you are correct, /etc/hosts does seem to be the key but what I've
>> run into is that changing the 127.0.0.1 line by making the hostname
>> fully qualified breaks other things on production servers. I'll
>> probably wind up using define(`confDOMAIN_NAME’, `xx.xx.xx')dnl to set
>> macro $j in sendmail.cf. That effectively bypasses the /etc/hosts
>> issue.
>
> It's not /etc/hosts.  It is the system hostname, which you
> can set with the hostname command or with the fedora GUI
> system-config-network program.  Sendmail must be restarted to
> pick up the new name.

IIRC, setting the host name with hostname won't preserve it across 
reboots.  Use system-config-network or edit /etc/sysconfig/network, then 
reboot.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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