On Saturday 01 December 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > 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.
Is this meant to be the LAN private address, or the Internet address of the host? -- Regards, Mick
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