On 14 Jul 00, at 0:49, raven wrote:
> 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
If you are running Linux at home, then why are you running the httpd at
all? Anyway, check your startup scripts and see what's wrong with it. Edit
it through tksysv, linuxcong, or anything else you like.
> installing qmail or running xwindows it says hostname lookup
Installing qmail! If you are at home, leave it alone. Use postfix instead.
> 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 entries
You can and can't. You sure will be able to send mails, and people will
receive them from raven.com, but where will they reply to? You must
appreciate that many people copy the from: field to their address books
rather that hit reply: and find where the mail should be sent.
> do i need to make in wat all files to set my hostname to raven.com.
Files you ned to change are /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts, though
why some people talk of /etc/hostname, I've been unable to fathom.
Basically, you will need to put your raven.com in place of localdomain.
Restart machine and changes in /etc/sysconfig/network should appropriately
change /etc/HOSTNAME on reboot.
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