Re: tlug: RH6.0 and samba

[Christopher Sekiya <wileyc@example.com>]

On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Tetsuji Rai wrote:

> This machine's hostname is tetsu, but if I assign tetsu to 10.0.0.1 in
> /etc/hosts, my Linux stops at sendmail on booting.

/etc/hosts must look like this:

10.0.0.1 tetsu.somedomain.jp tetsu

_not_

10.0.0.1 tetsu

Sendmail wants the FQDN, otherwise it will hang upon startup.  This is a
known gotcha when one drops a new sendmail on a solaris box, which
typically do not have the FQDN in /etc/hosts.

-- Chris (wileyc@example.com)

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