On Saturday 1 December 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've got my own domain and domain server. I've just run into a > problem about the appropriate settings for hosts and domains, and it's > messing up a few things in my postfix setup. > > The gentoo instructions say to set /etc/conf.d/hostname to the host > name only. It gets passed to sethostname(2) unchanged by > /etc/init.d/hostname. I did it. > The gentoo instructions say to put a domain name, if needed, into > /etc/conf.d/net. It seems to get used in network setup. I did it. > > Nothing seems to be set into whatever it is that setdomainname(2) is > used for. > My mailx mailer seems to put "localdomain" on the sender address when > my crontab entries call it. Maybe because it sees that > getdomainname(2) comes up empty. > > What's the right way to set this up? Should I just cobble my proper > domain into setdomainname(2)? Is there a right way? Is there a > better way?
Try adding the following line to /etc/hosts: a.b.c.d hostname.your.domain hostname of course, replacing a.b.c.d with your correct ip address. I don't know whether this is related to your problem, but it usually solves the domainname: (none) problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
