Re: Simple hostname -f question

Worik Stanton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 23/03/14 12:27, Tom Clark wrote:
> 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

Bingo.  Thanks.

A bit of a magic incantation.  I could not find any decent documentation
for this!

Thanks

Worik
> 
> 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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