subject:"hostname"

Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup
bsdbox (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning
dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's
not a problem because my WAN connectivity is fine, but I still want
to resolve this.

In /etc/hosts there are two lines containing:

localhost localhost.my.domain

Since I'm connecting to the Internet through a dynamic-IP ISP without
a reserved domain name, I have nothing with which to replace
my.domain.

What should I do to resolve this issue? In a situation like this
(note: I am behind a home router), is there actually anything I can
replace my.domain with?

Pardon my very limited understanding of networking concepts :)

Thanks,
Daniel
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:14:24 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 In /etc/hosts there are two lines containing:
 
 localhost localhost.my.domain

Really? No IP? I mean like

::1 localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local bsdbox
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local.


 
 Since I'm connecting to the Internet through a dynamic-IP ISP without
 a reserved domain name, I have nothing with which to replace
 my.domain.

You can replace it with anything that doesn't resolve, such
as .local, .localdomain, .dingenskirchens... :-)



 What should I do to resolve this issue? In a situation like this
 (note: I am behind a home router), is there actually anything I can
 replace my.domain with?

It's important that /etc/hosts defines the values for
localhost and your selected hostname (bsdbox), at least
with the 127.0.0.1 IP. You can add further IPs with the
same name if your machine spans a LAN (such as from
192.168.1.1).

You can check everything with

% host localhost

and

% host bsdbox

so it should resolve to 127.0.0.1.


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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote:

 Every time I log in to xfce, it throws a warning that it cannot lookup
 bsdbox (which is my hostname as defined in rc.conf). The warning
 dialog suggests altering /etc/hosts to fix the problem. In fact, it's
 not a problem because my WAN connectivity is fine, but I still want
 to resolve this.

 In /etc/hosts there are two lines containing:

 localhost localhost.my.domain

 Since I'm connecting to the Internet through a dynamic-IP ISP without
 a reserved domain name, I have nothing with which to replace
 my.domain.

 What should I do to resolve this issue? In a situation like this
 (note: I am behind a home router), is there actually anything I can
 replace my.domain with?

 Pardon my very limited understanding of networking concepts :)

 Thanks,
 Daniel
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Try adding the following line to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain

Do not delete the localhost lines.

Andrew
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

 Really? No IP? I mean like

::1 localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local bsdbox
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local.

Right, I realize I was unclear. I just meant that two lines contained
localhost localhost.my.domain, not that they ONLY contained that
phrase.  So, yes, I'm referring to the lines starting with ::1 and
127.0.0.1.

Let me make sure I understand (part of) your advice.  Since I set
hostname=bsdbox in rc.conf, I should replace localhost instances
in /etc/ttys ?

Thanks,
Daniel
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

*Correction*

In previous email, /etc/ttys -- /etc/hosts.
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote:

  Really? No IP? I mean like
 
 ::1 localhost
 127.0.0.1   localhost
 127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local bsdbox
 127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local.

 Right, I realize I was unclear. I just meant that two lines contained
 localhost localhost.my.domain, not that they ONLY contained that
 phrase.  So, yes, I'm referring to the lines starting with ::1 and
 127.0.0.1.

 Let me make sure I understand (part of) your advice.  Since I set
 hostname=bsdbox in rc.conf, I should replace localhost instances
 in /etc/ttys ?

 Thanks,
 Daniel


I don't think you should touch /etc/ttys for this problem.

Andrew
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon

On Thu, 7 May 2009 09:37:59 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 Let me make sure I understand (part of) your advice.  Since I set
 hostname=bsdbox in rc.conf, I should replace localhost instances
 in /etc/ttys ?

No, the name localhost should be in your /etc/hosts,
along with the hostname you selected. In this case,
something like

# for localhost:
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost
# for your hostname:
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local bsdbox
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.local.

would be okay. You can use .my.domain instead of .local;
.localdomain is okay, too.


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isc-dhcpd server, HOSTNAME

2009-05-07 Thread Pieter Donche


FreeBSD7 with isc-dhcp30-server.
It hands out an IP address, OK,
but the BASH environment variable HOSTNAME is not set. 
Why?


(A DNS server is active on the network and can succesfully be queried 
from a FreeBSD bash command (nslookup or host) to see the hostname 
associated with the IP-address)


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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

I added the line

127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain

and now it works perfectly, thanks!

Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does
that line do?
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Andrew Gould

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.comwrote:

 I added the line

 127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain

 and now it works perfectly, thanks!

 Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does
 that line do?


The /etc/hosts file is used to map host names to IP addresses.  It is very
useful for assigning names to computers on your home network since those
computers are (probably) not mapped in a DNS system.

As you can see, an IP address, such as 127.0.0.1 (local host and bsdbox),
can be mapped to multiple names.

Andrew
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Re: Xfce unable to lookup hostname

2009-05-07 Thread Polytropon

On Thu, 7 May 2009 20:26:40 -0400, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com 
wrote:
 I added the line
 
 127.0.0.1 bsdbox bsdbox.my.domain
 
 and now it works perfectly, thanks!
 
 Question: what does the line I added tell my computer? I.e., what does
 that line do?

It simply associates the given hostname to that IP adress. This
enables the system to resolve to this IP when the literal name
is given. This resolution is one of the basic principles.

Allthough the line works, it should be formed this way (or, it
should be two lines):

127.0.0.1   hostname.domain hostname
127.0.0.1   hostname.domain.

Note the dot. In your case, it would be

127.0.0.1   bsdbox.my.domain bsdbox
127.0.0.1   bsdbox.my.domain.

This enables the following resolve patterns:

bsdbox  - 127.0.0.1
bsdbox.my.domain- 127.0.0.1 (You've got only this)

The first one is the alias / short name of the host, its
hostname. The second one is the full name including the
hostname and the domainname.

Refer to

% man hosts

for a much better explaination. :-)

An addition: It's important that the system can resolve localhost,
too, because that's an important reserved literal name. For
example, the CUPS often addresses localhost:631 (if I
remember correctly, I use apsfilter). Furthermore, the system's
mail subsystem relies on such settings.

So you could add or complete:

::1 localhost
127.0.0.1   localhost

It can cause big (stupid) problems if you miss them. :-)




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Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread Mister Olli

Hi,

is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems
via kernel command line parameters?

I have some freebsd systems in as xen domU's and it would be really
great to be able to set the ip address  hostname within the
configuration file for the domU.

I'm aware that I could configure a static mac address and use DHCP, but
with several layer2 segments on different XEN hosts setting up DHCP
correctly would be a real pain ;-)

---
Regards
Mr. Olli

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Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread jt

Hi,
   I would take a look at sysctl this system takes care of kernel
parameters.  There are a few man pages that delineate what is read only.
I'm sure you are aware of setting the hostname at boot time.  It seemed like
you were more curious about on the fly.  I'm not familiar with xen domU's

hope this helps,

=jt

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Mister Olli mister.o...@googlemail.comwrote:

 Hi,

 is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems
 via kernel command line parameters?

 I have some freebsd systems in as xen domU's and it would be really
 great to be able to set the ip address  hostname within the
 configuration file for the domU.

 I'm aware that I could configure a static mac address and use DHCP, but
 with several layer2 segments on different XEN hosts setting up DHCP
 correctly would be a real pain ;-)

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 Regards
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Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Bishop


Hi,

On 6 May 2009, at 16:20, Mister Olli wrote:


is there a way to configure IP address and hostname on freebsd systems
via kernel command line parameters? [etc]


When running diskless, the loader sets kernel variables like:

boot.netif.gateway=192.168.198.1
boot.netif.hwaddr=00:15:17:47:14:fc
boot.netif.ip=192.168.198.8
boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0

to values obtained from BOOTP or DHCP, and the right things happen. I  
guess you could just set these in loader.conf or at the loader prompt.


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Last commmand showing resolved hostname

2009-01-17 Thread Troy

I have a question.  Is there a way that you can make the 'last' command
display the DNS resolved name of the users that have logged into a machine
rather than the IP address.  Showing both name and IP address would be
even better.  

I looked at the man page (man last) and it says Host names may be names or
internet numbers.  The machine has it's DNS client working just fine. I
can resolve names perfectly fine on the machine.  It just appears that the
'last' command needs something that I'm unaware of to use the DNS
resolver.

Any ideas?

-Troy
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Re: Last commmand showing resolved hostname

2009-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger


On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Troy wrote:
I have a question.  Is there a way that you can make the 'last'  
command
display the DNS resolved name of the users that have logged into a  
machine

rather than the IP address.  Showing both name and IP address would be
even better.


The issue is that DNS hostnames can change between the time the wtmp  
entry was made and the time you run last and try to perform DNS  
resolution, so the wtmp database keeps IP addresses only.


This being said, you can get what you've asked for by installing the / 
usr/ports/dns/adns port, and running last | adnsresfilter.


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Cannot send to mailing lists - client host rejected: cannot find your hostname

2009-01-15 Thread rock_on_the_web

I'm having a minor problem with posting to the list. I have my own  
mail server using postfix, fetchmail, and courier. I have several  
domain names, and I'm using one for my mail server.


In my logs I'm seeing 450 errors for freebsd-questions since around  
the end of last year, but I did have some dns issues after I moved the  
server in a clean up and network down disaster at the end of the year.  
Thats all sorted now, but the errors are still there! I just posted  
again and still no luck. I'm using a static address from my ISP, and  
while I can run a server on the system legally, I'm getting no help to  
do so.


Is there a reason for this sudden change? Have the filtering rules on  
the freebsd server changed recently? I can be posted privately if need  
be.



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Re: Cannot send to mailing lists - client host rejected: cannot find your hostname

2009-01-15 Thread Olivier Nicole

 I'm having a minor problem with posting to the list. I have my own  
 mail server using postfix, fetchmail, and courier. I have several  
 domain names, and I'm using one for my mail server.
 
 In my logs I'm seeing 450 errors for freebsd-questions since around  
 the end of last year, but I did have some dns issues after I moved the  

It would help if you post some logs and return error messages...

Olivier 
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Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki


  SSH_CONNECTION
  FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
  EDITOR
 
 I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and not 
 hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons 

Mel:

 You were right to some extent.  However, the problem is more
complicated (or less complicated, depending).

First, FreeBSD's default php.ini doesn't have:

$variables_order = EGPCS, so $ENV[] array wasn't getting popualted at
all.

Second, Apache FreeBSD RC scripts inherit the user environment from
sudo(8) unless you pass -H or -i flag/args

E.x.:,

 % sudo -H -i -u root /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

Compared to:

 $ su -
 Password:
 $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

Result in completely different results in PHP's $_ENV[]

Additionally, the results of $ su - differ completely from the shell
environment that executes when rc(8) is first run at boot time.

I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly.
  
~BAS



 in /usr/share/skel on FreeBSD does not set them. Neither 
 does /etc/login.conf. 


 I would set it in /etc/profile.
 
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Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Mel

On Monday 29 December 2008 11:12:33 Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
   SSH_CONNECTION
   FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
   EDITOR
 
  I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and
  not hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons

 Mel:

  You were right to some extent.  However, the problem is more
 complicated (or less complicated, depending).

 First, FreeBSD's default php.ini doesn't have:

 $variables_order = EGPCS, so $ENV[] array wasn't getting popualted at
 all.

The port only installs php.ini-dist and php.ini-recommended, which are the 
ones from the PHP source tree. If neither of these is copied to php.ini then 
php.ini-dist is hardcoded inside php itself, also not something the FreeBSD 
port alters.

 Second, Apache FreeBSD RC scripts inherit the user environment from
 sudo(8) unless you pass -H or -i flag/args

 E.x.:,

  % sudo -H -i -u root /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

 Compared to:

  $ su -
  Password:
  $ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart

 Result in completely different results in PHP's $_ENV[]

As expected.
However, stuff in /etc/profile applies to all Bourne type shells.

 Additionally, the results of $ su - differ completely from the shell
 environment that executes when rc(8) is first run at boot time.

Correct. You can however clean the entire environment, by setting 
apache22limits_enable=YES and apache22limits_args=-e -E -C daemon.
If you need specific variables to be available and the rest to be gone, the 
standard rc script doesn't support it. You'd have to roll your own.

 I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly.

For portability yes, since it doesn't rely on EGPCS, but otherwise they give 
the same results.

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Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-29 Thread Brian A. Seklecki

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 12:05 -0900, Mel wrote:
 
  I may be better off using getenv() in PHP directly.
 
 For portability yes, since it doesn't rely on EGPCS, but otherwise
 they give the same results.

Another option would be to pay the PHP people to add POSIX 1003.1-2001
gethostname(2).  I'll ask on the lists.

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Re: Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-27 Thread Mel

On Wednesday 24 December 2008 10:22:34 Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
 All:

 I've got a fun problem ...

 I'm having trouble tracking down where the default list of exported
 variables is set for sh(1).

 I've got a piece of PHP code that runs on GNU/Linux but not FreeBSD
 because (I think) $HOSTNAME is exported by default.

 The PHP CLI calls $_ENV[HOSTNAME], which under GNU/Linux returns:

 $ php -r 'print gethostbyaddr(gethostbyname($_ENV[HOSTNAME]))'
 soundwave.wscollaborativefusion.com

 In HTTP/CGI mode, I can call $_SERVER[]. But $_ENV[] should work in both
 CLI and HTTP mode.

 However, because Apache is spawned from sh(1) from rc(8) and in FreeBSD
 6.x, $HOSTNAME is not exported by default, which is what $_ENV[] uses
 (getenv()):

 $ uname -a
 FreeBSD bdb00 6.3-RELEASE-p2
 $ export
 SSH_CLIENT
 USER
 MAIL
 HOME
 SSH_TTY
 PAGER
 ENV
 LOGNAME
 BLOCKSIZE
 TERM
 PATH
 SHELL
 SSH_CONNECTION
 FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
 EDITOR

I suspect linux to set them from .profile files (even /etc/profile) and not 
hardcoded in a shell or login program. The default skeletons 
in /usr/share/skel on FreeBSD does not set them. Neither 
does /etc/login.conf.
I would set it in /etc/profile.

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Default list of exported variables in sh(1) - $HOSTNAME

2008-12-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki

All:

I've got a fun problem ...

I'm having trouble tracking down where the default list of exported
variables is set for sh(1).

I've got a piece of PHP code that runs on GNU/Linux but not FreeBSD
because (I think) $HOSTNAME is exported by default.  

The PHP CLI calls $_ENV[HOSTNAME], which under GNU/Linux returns:

$ php -r 'print gethostbyaddr(gethostbyname($_ENV[HOSTNAME]))'
soundwave.wscollaborativefusion.com

In HTTP/CGI mode, I can call $_SERVER[]. But $_ENV[] should work in both
CLI and HTTP mode. 

However, because Apache is spawned from sh(1) from rc(8) and in FreeBSD
6.x, $HOSTNAME is not exported by default, which is what $_ENV[] uses
(getenv()):

$ uname -a
FreeBSD bdb00 6.3-RELEASE-p2
$ export
SSH_CLIENT
USER
MAIL
HOME
SSH_TTY
PAGER
ENV
LOGNAME
BLOCKSIZE
TERM
PATH
SHELL
SSH_CONNECTION
FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
EDITOR

---
Compare to:

linux$ uname -a
Linux soundwave 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.x86_64 
linux$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.2.33(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
linux$ export|wc -l
52
linux$ export|grep -i host
declare -x HOSTNAME=soundwave



It could be set in the sources for sh(1) or shells/bash, login(1),
possibly somehow related to PAM.
 
src/usr.bin/login/login.c has :

static int export(const char *s) {

 * - Do not export certain variables.  This list was taken from the
 *   Solaris pam_putenv(3) man page.
 * Then export it.
static const char *noexport[] = {
  SHELL, HOME, LOGNAME, MAIL, CDPATH,
  IFS, PATH, NULL

}..

$HOSTNAME not listed here

---

src/bin/sh/var.c has environment(){} and at least one other call to
getnamebyaddr()



Bash has set_machine_vars() in variables.c:
  temp_var = set_if_not (HOSTNAME, current_host_name);

-

There are also about 500 calls to getenv() in the PHP source code under
main/, however none explicitly for $HOSTNAME.  

This is similar to bash, so unless the Redhat people are maintaining
lots of SRPM patches to Bash _and_ PHP, I'm prepared to isolate the
problem to FreeBSD and sh(1)/login(1)

Thoughts?  (Happy holidays all!)

~BAS

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Re: redundancy in domain or hostname ?

2008-01-28 Thread Derek Ragona


At 06:36 PM 1/26/2008, Walter Jansen wrote:

The router connected to my server reports DNS inquiries like
myserver.example.com.example.com which obviously leads nowhere



The server is in a SOHO situation connected to a router which is connected
to DSL; the server runs 6.3 Release and will serve as mailserver for the few
in-house employees  and as a webserver. The domain example.com is
registered with Dyndns.org who also run the Custom DNS service.  The DNS
entries were checked with Dyndns.org staff and found in accordance with the
purpose.

During installation  of the server, the hostname myserver.example.com and
the domain name example.com were entered in the appropiate Sysinstall
dialog

.

/etc/hosts shows:



::1 localhost.example.com localhost

127.0.0.1   localhost.example.com localhost

192.168.1.13myserver.example.com myserver

192.168.1.13myserver.example.com.



192.168.1.13 is allocated to the server by the DHCP of the router; this IP
address is fixed though!!





Table /etc/resolv.com reads:



domain  example.com

nameserver  192.168.1.1  (my router's IP address





I postponed installation of Postfix and Apache as I feel that host- and
domainname should be configured correctly to prevent accumulating trouble.



Remarks a most appreciated.


The extra entries in /etc/hosts are for both IP6 and IP4 the hostname entry 
with the trailing dot: myserver.example.com. denotes it as a fully 
qualified domain name, FQDN.


If hostname shows the correct hostname with one domain, the problem is else 
ware.  If it is else ware, I suspect your router is adding the example.com 
to every lookup.


-Derek

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Re: redundancy in domain or hostname ?

2008-01-27 Thread Josh Paetzel

On Saturday 26 January 2008 06:36:11 pm Walter Jansen wrote:
 The router connected to my server reports DNS inquiries like
 myserver.example.com.example.com which obviously leads nowhere



 The server is in a SOHO situation connected to a router which is connected
 to DSL; the server runs 6.3 Release and will serve as mailserver for the
 few in-house employees  and as a webserver. The domain example.com is
 registered with Dyndns.org who also run the Custom DNS service.  The DNS
 entries were checked with Dyndns.org staff and found in accordance with the
 purpose.

 During installation  of the server, the hostname myserver.example.com and
 the domain name example.com were entered in the appropiate Sysinstall
 dialog

 .

 /etc/hosts shows:
 ::1 localhost.example.com localhost

 127.0.0.1   localhost.example.com localhost

 192.168.1.13myserver.example.com myserver

 192.168.1.13myserver.example.com.



 192.168.1.13 is allocated to the server by the DHCP of the router; this IP
 address is fixed though!!





 Table /etc/resolv.com reads:



 domain  example.com

 nameserver  192.168.1.1  (my router's IP address





 I postponed installation of Postfix and Apache as I feel that host- and
 domainname should be configured correctly to prevent accumulating trouble.



 Remarks a most appreciated.



 --  Walter --

If memory serves the hostname in sysinstall is just the host part of the name, 
in your case myserver, and the domain part is example.com

What does hostname think the hostname is?

The other common case where you'll get this is forgetting a . in a BIND zone 
file, which causes it to append the domain name again

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redundancy in domain or hostname ?

2008-01-26 Thread Walter Jansen

The router connected to my server reports DNS inquiries like
myserver.example.com.example.com which obviously leads nowhere

 

The server is in a SOHO situation connected to a router which is connected
to DSL; the server runs 6.3 Release and will serve as mailserver for the few
in-house employees  and as a webserver. The domain example.com is
registered with Dyndns.org who also run the Custom DNS service.  The DNS
entries were checked with Dyndns.org staff and found in accordance with the
purpose.  

During installation  of the server, the hostname myserver.example.com and
the domain name example.com were entered in the appropiate Sysinstall
dialog

. 

/etc/hosts shows:

 

::1 localhost.example.com localhost

127.0.0.1   localhost.example.com localhost

192.168.1.13myserver.example.com myserver

192.168.1.13myserver.example.com.

 

192.168.1.13 is allocated to the server by the DHCP of the router; this IP
address is fixed though!!

 

 

Table /etc/resolv.com reads:

 

domain  example.com

nameserver  192.168.1.1  (my router's IP address

 

 

I postponed installation of Postfix and Apache as I feel that host- and
domainname should be configured correctly to prevent accumulating trouble.

 

Remarks a most appreciated.

 

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Re: gdm-binary: Unable to connect to socket: hostname nor servname provided (SOLVED)

2007-11-21 Thread Laszlo Nagy

The problem was that gdm was compiled with IPv6 support but the kernel 
wasn't. This should not cause the gdm process to freeze and only exit 
with kill -9 right?



Thanks,

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gdm-binary: Unable to connect to socket: hostname nor servname provided

2007-11-20 Thread Laszlo Nagy



 Hi All,

Do you have any idea what is the problem with my settings? gdm places 
this message in /var/log/messages:


Nov 20 12:19:05 cassiopeia gdm-binary[1167]: ERROR: Unable to connect to 
socket: hostname nor servname provided, or not known aborting...


The local X server starts, but gdm is not accepting connections on 
TCP/177. This is the problem, because I want many clients connect to 
this computer with xdmcp.


My ports tree was first downloaded via portsnap fetch three days ago. 
All ports have been compiled from this ports tree.  My 
/usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf file has these modifications:


snip
[security]
DisallowTCP=false

[xdmcp]
Enable=true
/snip

Here is some more information:


snip
cassiopeia# uname -a
FreeBSD cassiopeia.ronet 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #1: Thu 
Nov 15 17:19:45 EST 2007 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CASSIOPEIA  amd64

cassiopeia# hostname
cassiopeia.ronet
cassiopeia# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search ronet
nameserver 192.168.0.1
cassiopeia# host cassiopeia
cassiopeia.ronet has address 192.168.0.1
cassiopeia# ipfw show
00050 4320 696526 divert 8668 ip4 from any to any via rl0
00100  112   8560 allow ip from any to any via lo0
002000  0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8
003000  0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any
65000 4320 696526 allow ip from any to any
655350  0 deny ip from any to any
cassiopeia# pkg_info | grep gdm
gdm-2.20.1_1GNOME 2 version of xdm display manager
cassiopeia#ifconfig
rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   options=8VLAN_MTU
   inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
   ether 00:0e:2e:8f:13:03
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
   status: active
re0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
   options=1bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING
   inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
   ether 00:1a:4d:7b:cf:d6
   media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
   status: active
plip0: flags=108810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384
   inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00
cassiopeia# cat /etc/rc.conf
moused_flags=
moused_port=/dev/psm0
moused_type=auto
moused_enable=YES

gateway_enable=YES
hostname=cassiopeia.ronet

ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig_re0=inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

firewall_enable=YES
firewall_type=/etc/ipfw.conf

local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d

gnome_enable=YES


inetd_enable=YES  # TFTP
named_enable=YES  # DNS cache, local DNS 
(diskless1XX.ronet)


dhcpd_enable=YES  # dhcpd enabled?
dhcpd_flags=-q# command option(s)
dhcpd_conf=/usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf  # configuration file
dhcpd_ifaces=re0  # ethernet interface(s)
dhcpd_withumask=022   # file creation mask


nfs_server_enable=YES
nfs_reserved_port_only=YES
rcpbind_enable=YES
mountd_flags=-r
rpc_lockd_enable=YES
rpc_statd_enable=YES

natd_enable=YES
natd_interface=rl0
natd_flags=

/snip

Thanks,

  Laszlo



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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


At 07:19 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote:




Jonathan Horne wrote:

 On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote:
 I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
 smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
 wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
 localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when
 I
 first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
 appreciated.

 Thanks!

 its fairly simple actually.  example:

 my system's name is athena.  my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer
 is
 athena.dfwlp.com.  the hostname command can show you waht your current
 hostname is:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname
 athena.dfwlp.com

 also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname
 when
 you start up:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname
 hostname=athena.dfwlp.com

 finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network
 configuration
 page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the
 Domain:
 box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont
 put
 the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain
 box).

 cheers,
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Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and
it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it
was a domain I had laying arond. Is that ok? How does one pick a domain?
Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of
which has a hostname mail, web, etc..


Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one.  They is why there are so many 
domain possibilities these days, like .info, .biz, etc. in addition to the 
regular .com, .net, .org


-Derek

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I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites
have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to
use the same domain name that your hosted web site
uses for your LAN?

--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Pick a domain you own, or buy a new one.  They is
 why there are so many 
 domain possibilities these days, like .info, .biz,
 etc. in addition to the 
 regular .com, .net, .org



   

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:

I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites
have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to
use the same domain name that your hosted web site
uses for your LAN?


Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may be having unique machine 
names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.


-Derek
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--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
 I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites
 have just the one domain name. Does it make sense
 to
 use the same domain name that your hosted web site
 uses for your LAN?
 
 Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may be
 having unique machine 
 names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.

Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the
same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server
and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so
I guess I would not want to use these.


   

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Pluta

Jonathan Horne wrote:

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote:
How does one pick a domain?
Just any old domain?

thats often how it goes! mine was originally dfwlanparty... but dfwlp
just
became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as. i
bought the domain just out of convenience many moons ago :)

I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of
which has a hostname mail, web, etc..

fairly close, some times you will actually find servers that actually are
named web mail, or have names after services. myself, i have names
that
ive chosen, and then use DNS to link the common services to them.
example,
if you do a:

host castor.dfwlp.com

youll find that castor is my server that handles www.dfwlp.com. so, if
you
have a specific name in mind, dont be afraid to use it! you can always go
back later and use DNS to give your box as many jobs as you need (ie,
you
can DNS both www and mail to the same server, if you need to).

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Ah ok. I host a few domains on my box, 3 web, and 1 mail. I will just call
my box box(anything).placidpublishing.net and just have dns entries for
mail, www, etc.. to the appropriate domains. That makes more sense. Thanks

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:


--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
 I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites
 have just the one domain name. Does it make sense
 to
 use the same domain name that your hosted web site
 uses for your LAN?

 Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may be
 having unique machine
 names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.

Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the
same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server
and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so
I guess I would not want to use these.


Correct, only use host names that are unique.  Most use some names that 
help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc.


-Derek

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:


--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:

 --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
   At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
   I and most of my clients who have hosted web
 sites
   have just the one domain name. Does it make
 sense
   to
   use the same domain name that your hosted web
 site
   uses for your LAN?
  
   Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may
 be
   having unique machine
   names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.
 
 Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN
 the
 same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail
 server
 and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
 for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
 mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com,
 so
 I guess I would not want to use these.

 Correct, only use host names that are unique.  Most
 use some names that
 help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc.

Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know
something until you actually _know_ it! :-)


It gets easier with experience.  Doesn't hurt if you do some DNS setups too.

-Derek

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


--- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
 
 --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
   At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote:
   I and most of my clients who have hosted web
 sites
   have just the one domain name. Does it make
 sense
   to
   use the same domain name that your hosted web
 site
   uses for your LAN?
  
   Sure does, no reason not to.  The only issue may
 be
   having unique machine
   names, but that shouldn't really be too tough.
 
 Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN
 the
 same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail
 server
 and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
 for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
 mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com,
 so
 I guess I would not want to use these.
 
 Correct, only use host names that are unique.  Most
 use some names that 
 help identify the machine by the dept, user, etc.

Thanks for clearing that up, Derek. It's hard to know
something until you actually _know_ it! :-)



   
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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg


On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote:


Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN the
same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail server
and ftp server? I don't even know what the hostname
for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers are
mail.domainname.com and ftp.domainname.com, so
I guess I would not want to use these.


I have a minimum of three names for any machine visible to the  
outside world.


(1)  I have the internal name that I give a box.  A few years ago, I  
asked my daughter for help naming machines, and we ended up with a  
Harry Potter theme.  So my primary external server (which has the  
most names) is dobby.ewd.goldmark.org, but that name isn't visible to  
the world.  It's not secret, but I have no intention of having  
anything out side my local network needed to refer to it that way.


(And in the Harry Potter scheme, my three headed firewall is named  
fluffy.)


(2) But there is another name it must also have.  I have a tiny block  
of IP addresses which all had PTR records associated with them like


 static-72-64-118-118.dllstx.fios.verizon.net.

It took more than two hours on the phone to Verizon to get those  
changed, so it was something I only ever wanted to do once, so I have  
names like


   n114.ewd.goldmark.org
   n115.ewd.goldmark.org

and so on.  So dobby is also known of as n118.ewd.goldmark.org

(3) Now dobby runs a couple of public servers.  It runs Apache as  
www.goldmark.org and about half a dozen vhosts.  It also also runs a  
mailserver (postfix) with mailman primarily visible under the name  
lists.shepard-families.org.


So recapping.  One is my quasi-private name for the box itself.  And  
that is what hostname  knows.  Two is a name corresponding the the  
reverse lookup of any public  IP address it might have.  There may be  
several of these if the machine had multiple IP addresses.  And three  
are role names for all of the services it runs.  This way, if I  
want to move a service to a different host, that is relatively easy.


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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way


--- Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:29 PM, L Goodwin wrote:
 
  Do you mean avoid giving any machines on your LAN
 the
  same hostname as the (hosted) web server, mail
 server
  and ftp server? I don't even know what the
 hostname
  for the web server is. The mail and ftp servers
 are
  mail.domainname.com and
 ftp.domainname.com, so
  I guess I would not want to use these.
 
 I have a minimum of three names for any machine
 visible to the  
 outside world.
 
 (1)  I have the internal name that I give a box.  A
 few years ago, I  
 asked my daughter for help naming machines, and we
 ended up with a  
 Harry Potter theme.  So my primary external server
 (which has the  
 most names) is dobby.ewd.goldmark.org, but that name
 isn't visible to  
 the world.  It's not secret, but I have no intention
 of having  
 anything out side my local network needed to refer
 to it that way.
 
 (And in the Harry Potter scheme, my three headed
 firewall is named  
 fluffy.)
 
 (2) But there is another name it must also have.  I
 have a tiny block  
 of IP addresses which all had PTR records associated
 with them like
 
   static-72-64-118-118.dllstx.fios.verizon.net.
 
 It took more than two hours on the phone to Verizon
 to get those  
 changed, so it was something I only ever wanted to
 do once, so I have  
 names like
 
 n114.ewd.goldmark.org
 n115.ewd.goldmark.org
 
 and so on.  So dobby is also known of as
 n118.ewd.goldmark.org
 
 (3) Now dobby runs a couple of public servers.  It
 runs Apache as  
 www.goldmark.org and about half a dozen vhosts.  It
 also also runs a  
 mailserver (postfix) with mailman primarily visible
 under the name  
 lists.shepard-families.org.
 
 So recapping.  One is my quasi-private name for the
 box itself.  And  
 that is what hostname  knows.  Two is a name
 corresponding the the  
 reverse lookup of any public  IP address it might
 have.  There may be  
 several of these if the machine had multiple IP
 addresses.  And three  
 are role names for all of the services it runs. 
 This way, if I  
 want to move a service to a different host, that is
 relatively easy.

Thanks, Jeff!


   

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FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta


I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I
first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
appreciated. 

Thanks! 
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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Derek Ragona


At 07:05 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote:


I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I
first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!


I always give my servers a hostname and IP for the base system.  If I add a 
website, I will add another IP (or use apache's virtual hosting on the same 
IP) and add another DNS entry for the system.  You can have more than one 
name for an IP and for a server.


-Derek

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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote:
 I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
 smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
 wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
 localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when I
 first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
 appreciated.

 Thanks!

its fairly simple actually.  example:

my system's name is athena.  my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer is 
athena.dfwlp.com.  the hostname command can show you waht your current 
hostname is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname
athena.dfwlp.com

also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname when 
you start up:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname
hostname=athena.dfwlp.com

finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network configuration 
page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the Domain: 
box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont put 
the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain 
box).

cheers,
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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Peter Pluta

Jonathan Horne wrote:

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote:
I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http,
smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm
wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's
localhost.localdomain. This has always confused me from the begining when
I
first started using FreeBSD, can anyone chime in? It would greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!

its fairly simple actually. example:

my system's name is athena. my domain, is dfwlp.com... thus my computer
is
athena.dfwlp.com. the hostname command can show you waht your current
hostname is:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ hostname
athena.dfwlp.com

also, there is a line in /etc/rc.conf that specifys the system's hostname
when
you start up:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ cat /etc/rc.conf|grep hostname
hostname=athena.dfwlp.com

finally, when you are installing freebsd, during the network
configuration
page, the Host: box would be where i would put athena, and the
Domain:
box would be where i put dfwlp.com (when you set your domain, you dont
put
the . in front of the domain name, ie, dont put .dfwlp.com in the domain
box).

Right, my current box is mail.placidpublishing.com, I only have 1 box, and
it does web and mail. I just picked placidpublishing and used that since it
was a domain I had laying arond. Is that ok? How does one pick a domain?
Just any old domain? I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of
which has a hostname mail, web, etc..
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Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Horne

On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:19:58 Peter Pluta wrote:
 How does one pick a domain?
 Just any old domain? 

thats often how it goes!  mine was originally dfwlanparty... but dfwlp just 
became the shortend version of what the community referred to it as.  i 
bought the domain just out of convenience many moons ago :)

 I keep visualizing a domain as in 3-4 servers each of 
 which has a hostname mail, web, etc..

fairly close, some times you will actually find servers that actually are 
named web mail, or have names after services.  myself, i have names that 
ive chosen, and then use DNS to link the common services to them.  example, 
if you do a:

host castor.dfwlp.com

youll find that castor is my server that handles www.dfwlp.com.  so, if you 
have a specific name in mind, dont be afraid to use it!  you can always go 
back later and use DNS to give your box as many jobs as you need (ie, you 
can DNS both www and mail to the same server, if you need to).

cheers,
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hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?


Hello,

I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with
the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be
www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:

hostname=www.mydomain.com

but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when i
run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks,
Mike
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Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread John Nielsen

On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote:
 Hello,

 I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured with
 the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be
 www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:

 hostname=www.mydomain.com

 but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when i
 run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Is there a second hostname entry further down in rc.conf with the original 
value?

JN
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Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?


No, there's not. This is the entire rc.conf file:

hostname=www.mydomain.com
sshd_enable=NO
vsapd_enable=YES
enable_quotas=YES
clamav_clamd_enable=YES
spamd_enable=YES
spamd_pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid
spamd_flags=-c -d -r ${spamd_pidfile} --socketpath=/var/run/spamd.sock
mysql_enable=YES
mysql_args=--old-passwords --skip-character-set-client-handshake

Anything else I might check?

Thanks,
Mike


On 5/17/07, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


On Thursday 17 May 2007 01:27:52 pm Mike Barborak wrote:
 Hello,

 I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p28 server that was initially configured
with
 the hostname mydomain.com. I am trying to permanently change that to be
 www.mydomain.com. I have added this line to my /etc/rc.conf file:

 hostname=www.mydomain.com

 but after restarting the server it continues to return mydomain.com when
i
 run the command hostname. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Is there a second hostname entry further down in rc.conf with the original
value?

JN


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Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?


Thanks for the suggestions.

That's right, I'm not using DHCP.

I searched through /etc and /usr/local/etc for calls to hostname and for the
string www.mydomain.com and all I found was a call to the command hostname
in /etc/rc.network and my setting of the hostname variable in /etc/rc.conf.
After perusing /etc, apparently rc.network is called by /etc/rc after
sourcing rc.conf and this is how the hostname in /etc/rc.conf becomes the
hostname of the machine. So that appears to be fine.

Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during boot up? If I
add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to /etc/rc.local should
this force the hostname change?

Thanks,
Mike



On 5/17/07, Mark Tinguely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



I understand DHCP setting the hostname, which you are not using.
I understand DNS or /etc/hosts reporting the old name on the network,
but it should not effect hostname.

I would look for the old name:

# grep -r mydomain.com /etc

--Mark Tinguely


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Re: hostname setting in rc.conf ignored?

2007-05-17 Thread Robert Huff


Mike Barborak writes:

  Perhaps another tack, what is the last script executed during
  boot up? If I add a line like /bin/hostname www.mydomain.com to
  /etc/rc.local should this force the hostname change?

Start with man rc.d.



Robert Huff
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