On Sat 21 Dec 2013 at 12:56:35 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Changing the system hostname is a simple process. But it depends upon > what is installed since often the hostname is embedded in the > configuration of a package. For example the Postfix mail transport > agent needs to know the hostname in order for mail to work properly. > (I assume Exim does too but I don't run it and so don't know.) So > does Apache. And so forth. Each of those packages that need to know > the hostname need to change. Each of those changes are simple. Just > make sure you look and change all of them. > > Here are the places that need to be changed on every system. > > /etc/hosts > /etc/hostname > /etc/mailname
Would (or should) it be necessary to change /etc/mailname? mailname(5) describes this file as containing ". . . the fully qualified domain name that the program wishing to get the mail name should use (that is, everything after the @)." I use Exim but I'd expect Postfix's manpage to be identical. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131221225157.gv5...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
