hostname vs domainname

Couannette couannette at free.fr
Sat Mar 27 12:55:02 GMT 2004


I don't see any subject of trouble here :)

Remco Lubbers wrote:
> Op Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:54:47 +0100 schreef Couannette aan Lunar general
> discussion list <lunar at lunar-linux.org>:
> 
> 
>>what's your /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts ?
> 
> 
> At the moment, to start everything without errors at boottime, things are like
> this:
> 
> [/etc/host.conf]
> order hosts,bind
> multi on
> [//etc/host.conf]
> 
> [/etc/hosts]
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 192.168.1.2	server2.domain.nl    server2
> [//etc/hosts]
> 
> [/etc/hostname]
> server2.domain.nl
> [//etc/hostname]
> 
> [/etc/domainname]
> domain.nl
> [//etc/domainname]
> 
> Op Fri, 26 Mar 2004 20:44:04 +0100 schreef Auke Kok aan Lunar general
> discussion list <lunar at lunar-linux.org>:
> 
>>you might be able to force these in /etc/postfix/main.cf though, but 
>>they are sane settings for a lot of programs.
> 
> 
> Of course things can be set in /etc/postfix/main.cf, but I'd like to keep
> settings like these centralized. And postfix just complains if I change
> /etc/hostname to "server2".
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Remco
> 


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