On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Damon Parker wrote:
> In mail script to start qmail (qmail-pop3d.init which came in the memphis
> rpm) $HOST was defined as : $(dnsfq $(hostname)). Everytime I executed
> this it gave me a 'hard error' and pop3d would never start
> correctly. When I disabled the $HOME variable and hard-coded in my
> hostname to the tcpserver call everything seems to work fine now.
>
> What does this dnsfq command do? Does anyone know the correct syntax to
> use it to get the hostname?
At first, is that dnsfq program installed on your system at all?
The name is probably the abbreviation of dns fully qualified, and probably
it needs a hostname or an ip address to work with.
In debian there are some utilities like this in the dnsutils package. Do
you have something similar installed on your system?
Robert Varga
