Re: Simple hostname -f question

This is more of an educated guess rather than an authoritative answer, but
I'd suggest appending the hostname "susan" to the appropriate line in
/etc/hosts, like so:

128.199.199.128 susan.killmartha.com susan
127.0.0.1       localhost test

Cheers,
Tom


On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Worik Stanton <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am configuring a VPS
>
> I have a domain (killmartha.com) that points to it and works fine.
>
> I am trying to install qmail, but I get ab error:
>
> "The hostname -f command returned: $1"
>
> hostname -f from the command line returns "hostname: Name or service not
> known"
>
> Searching the Internet leaves me more confused than I started.
>
> I have a /etc/hosts file:
>
> cat /etc/hosts
> 128.199.199.128 susan.killmartha.com
> 127.0.0.1       localhost test
>
> (plus some IPV6 stuff)
>
> and my hostname file:
>
> $ cat /etc/hostname
> susan
>
> I am a bit perplexed and lost!  What have I done wrong?
>
> W
>
>
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