That edit to /etc/hosts did the trick. Many thanks! Will
--- Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Lo, on Tuesday, November 13, Williasm Dowling did write: > ^ > >Minor nit, but it looks like you've got a typo in your MUA configuration. > >> I am having trouble installing exim; when it fails it says: >> hostname: Unknown host >> hostname --fqdn gave non-zero exit code 256 >> >> I do not have a registered domain name; I suppose I need to set something >> fake like home.net. >I have a similar situation at work and puzzled through this a while >back. The fix is to edit /etc/hosts, but you're right, this is not >entirely clear from the manpages. > >> ====== /etc/hosts ============= >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts >> # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) >> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback >> fe00::0 ip6-localnet >> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix >> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes >> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters >> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts > >Since you use DHCP for an address, change the first line to read > >127.0.0.1 <FQDN> <HOSTNAME> localhost > >where <FQDN> is your fully-qualified domain name (with the fake domain) >and <HOSTNAME> is the machine's hostname, as printed by `uname -n' and >stored in /etc/hostname. In the language of the hosts(5) manpage, the >FQDN is your canonical_hostname, so it has to be the first name after >the IP address; the order of the other names is not significant. > >If you had a static IP, you'd put your FQDN and HOSTNAME on the line >with your statically assigned IP instead. > >Then, edit /etc/host.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf to make sure that you >search /etc/hosts for hostnames at some point in the process. Usually, >you want it to search there first, but this is probably not necessary. > >That should get you going. > >HTH, > >Richard > > _____________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE e-mail account at http://www.volcanomail.com
