I installed Debian a couple of months ago when I was using a PPP connection to the net. I just made up a hostname with no domain during the install and left it at that. Now I will have a permanent net connection with a static IP. I am using the name service of ml.org to make my system themarket.ml.org. I changed the /etc/hostname to themarket and added themarket and themarket.ml.org to /etc/hosts. I put 'domain ml.org' in /etc/resolv.conf. Everything looked ok, the /etc/issue showed up right and the hostname was fine in my prompt but if I type hostname --fqdn it only shows themarket and not themarket.ml.org. When I try to use pine it tells me 'Incomplete mail domain themarket' and that the return address on my mail will be incorrect. If I put the whole name in /etc/hostname, Pine works fine, but the issue file and my prompts both show the full name not just the 'themarket'. I installed the bind package hoping that might help, but no change. From the docs that came with bind it sounds like it needs a great deal of free memory, I only have an 8 meg system so I guess running named is a bad idea anyway ... How can I set the domain without screwing up the hostname ? As you can probably tell, I'm not very familiar with Linux yet, any help would be appreciated. Thanks Dave
-- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
