-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of YankDownUnder Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 12:41 AM To: newbie@mandrivalinux.org Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname
G'Day, dan dimmitt! A combination of 1's and 0's created the following on Thursday 29 September 2005 12:24 pm: > hello > > newbie question- > > in my syslog, i have found the followiing warning: > > localhost postfix/master[3107]: warning: My hostname localhost is not a > fully qualified name - set myhostname or mydomain in /etc/postfix/main.cf. > > I went looking for the file, and it is nowhere to be found. > how do i go about changing the host name, and what is a fully qualified > hostname? > > tia > > dan This is a misconfiguration with postfix. If you're not going to use postfix for localised email delivery (not CLIENT, but SERVER) then you can safely turn off postfix in the system's running services and not have to worry about the error. IF, on the other hand, you're wanting to setup your workstation to be a "mail server", then there is quite a bit more that has to be done... For settings up postix, the best suggestion is from D. Jennings at: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/mailserver_config.html no plans to set up a mail server. I have had trouble trying to get the samba server to work. I would like to be able to share a printer between a windows laptop and the linux desktop and I haven't had any luck with that. Keep getting a failed connection error. Would a screwy domain name effect samba? The two computers are connected by way of a dlink 704p router/print server. Just about given up on using the print server with the linux system, but I was wondering about being able to print from the windows box through the linux computer. How would I go about changing the host name? it should be simple, but I don't know how. By the way this is cooker x86-64. should the postfix thing be reported as a bug? Thanks dan -- -- YankDownUnder aka stephen kuhn #mandriva channel op - irc.freenode.net Mandriva Official IRC Support YankDownUnder -at- Mandriva -dot- org ----------------------------------------------- Running Mandriva LE2005-2.6.11-12mdk Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds, announcing Linux v2.0 ------------------------------------------------ ** Real Byte Computers ** Verified Virus Free ** ------------------------------------------------ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.6/111 - Release Date: 9/23/2005
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