On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Bill Thoen wrote: > I'm not sure that all this about /etc/hosts and resolv.conf answers my > question, because I can't find the old host name in any of those files, so > whatever is being done now isn't being done there.
Bill, That's because you have nothing other than 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts, and hosts.allow, hosts.deny, and hosts.equiv are probably equally empty. > So do you or anyone else know if the original machine name gets embedded > into sendmail's configuration when you first set up, and I have to go > digging into the the sendmail configuration to change it, or if this is > happening elsewhere? I know nothing about sendmail. > It's not critical, I can live with machine names of 'upper' and 'lower' > (named imaginatively after their positions in the rack) but I thought > changing machine names would be simple. Man, the water gets deep fast no > matter which way I step off my tiny island of Linux knowledge! Read the man page for 'hostname'. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
