On Monday 12 March 2007, oldman wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 00:18 -0800, oldman wrote: > >> I recently purchased a router, got it all set up > >> most everything still works, but I do not get the > >> daily logwatch message any longer on either my own > >> log-in nor on root's. I do get this spurious smart > >> error message so the mail system is working, the > >> aliases file is correct. > >> > >> I did also change the localhost.localdomain via > >> system-config-network and the smart message that I get > >> indicates the hostname is the name I added. I seem to > >> have the same problem on FC6 and Rawhide, so I'm > >> pretty sure it's something I didn't know about. > > > > How's your hostname set? I had mine accidentally set > > as a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), rather than > > just a hostname, so root mail was attempting to be sent > > to the wrong place. > > > > e.g. a hostname: "mine" > > a domainname: "localhost.localdomain" > > a FQDN: "mine.localhost.localdomain" > > > > The system adds the domain name to the hostname, trying > > to make a fully qualified domain name. Incorrectly > > using "mine.localhost.localdomain" as the hostname, > > results in an erroneous fully-qualified domain name > > like: > > "mine.localhost.localdomain.localhost.localdomain", > > which doesn't work. > > I think I have it fixed now, but just to be sure, in my > /etc/hosts I have: > > 192.168.1.101 old.HOME old > > which was duplicating the default 'localhost.localdomain > localhost' that is there. I understand that the final > localhost is an alias (that is the term used in Network > Manager) for localhost.localdomain, and every indication > I have (mostly my bash prompt) says localhost=old. I was > attempting to say that my computer was named old and my > network (domain?) was HOME, but apparently I am incorrect > here. > > BTW the fix (i hope) was that anacron is apparently not > installed by default in F7T2! > > Thanks for any help! > > Scott Set external hostname here /etc/sysconfig/network Set internal hostname here /etc/hosts
