On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, raven wrote:
> hi,
> my linux box says that my hhtpd does not start during boot up and says
> that use the setserver directive to manually start it.also while
> installing qmail or running xwindows it says hostname lookup
Check the /etc/hosts file that it contains loopback and your
host's information correctly. Give the complete information like
IP.Nu.mb.er hostname.domainname aliasforhosts
eg my /etc/hosts has:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
172.31.80.32 ajayd.cc.iitk.ac.in ajayd
> failure.since i am new please tell me wether i can use the hostname
> raven.com fer my linux machine fer recieving mails and sending them even
> though i havnt registered the domain name fer myself....also wat all
raven.com isn't a hostname but a domainname.You will have to set a
hostname also. You can send a mail with any domain name but you won;t be
able to receive any mail if the domain name does not have a DNS entry.
> entries do i need to make in wat all files to set my hostname to
> raven.com.
You can set your domain name in /etc/sysconfig/network as
HOSRNAME=yourhostname
DOMAINNAME=raven.com
#!!! If anything can go wrong, _FIX_ it. (To hell with MURPHY)
Ajay kumar Dwivedi
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