Re: hostname

From: damien hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 12:38:41 AKDT

The "fully qualified domain name" would be something like
"digitaloverload.net". That's my "fqdn".

Get your self a domain name. They don't cost that much these days. If
you already have one you need to place it in /etc/hosts. It goes on the
same line as localhost.

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 11:07 -0800, Alaska Computer Support Services
wrote:
> I'm installing qmail on debian but running into a problem with my
> hostname. I checked all the related files and it is set properly.
> But when I run hostname -s I get localhost as the output.
>
> My qmail install in choking because it wants a fqdn :
>
> The hostname -f command returned: $1
>
> Your system needs to have a fully qualified domain name (fqdn) in
> order to install the var-qmail packages.
>
>
> Can someone advise?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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