That looks like the exact page I referanced to. Looks like I may have to
recompile postfix and see if that sorts it.
Is there a make unistall option?
Hope fully the manual will say.
Cheers
Aaron
Len Conrad wrote:
>
>>hostname etc shows the correct hostname etc. I am at a loss.
>>
>>I hope i have explained well?! Any suggestions? more info needed.
>
>
> "change linus hostname" on google gives this:
>
> Edit /etc/sysconfig/network file and put this.
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=wcproto.mydomain.com
>
> #service network restart
>
> and another one:
>
>
> Change linux hostname
>
> These changes aren't required by every single distribution.
> But if you change all of them, you are most likely better off :)
>
> Change new hostname into /etc/HOSTNAME, /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network
> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
>
> Change in /etc/hosts isn't required, if you don't need your hostname to be
> an alias for localhost.
>
> Here are examples of each file.
> Note that my hostname is 'isis'
>
> /etc/HOSTNAME
> isis
>
> /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 127.0.0.1 isis
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=isis
> GATEWAYDEV=
> GATEWAY=
>
> On my conf /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 didn't have hostname
> defined anywhere. So changing it there wasn't necessary.
>
> If you want to, you can now reboot.
> If you don't want to reboot, simply run hostname <hostname>
>
>
> Len
>
>
>
>
> .
>
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