[H-GEN] Sendmail problems

Martin mczaplej at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jul 23 05:15:08 EDT 2001


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thanks

203.45.199.87	caffeine.dyn.dhs.org caffeine securemail.2y.net securemail

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^curiosly enough, Ive never thought about doing it like
that, and yet it seems painfully obvious right now :)


cheers Rob,

$caffeine uptime
 7:09pm  up 1 day,  4:57,  5 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.09

: Is there a way to disable Ctrl-Alt-Delete reboots? My girlfriend seems to
think that its a fix for any problem since she discovered it.






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> [mailto:mdlishum at zerlargal.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of Robert Brockway
> Sent: Monday, 23 July 2001 6:41 PM
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> Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Sendmail problems
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> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Martin wrote:
>
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost is the default entry, should I change this?
> >
> > these are the first 3 lines of my /etc/hosts:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1	localhost
> > 203.45.199.87     caffeine	caffeine.dyn.dhs.org
> > 203.45.199.87	securemail	securemail.2y.net
> >
> > securemail.2y.net is the one sendmail is configured for, it seems to be
> > working but is very patchy, refuses remote client connections....
> >
> > any ideas would be appreciated,,
>
> The FQDN (fully qualified domain name) should always be first in the
> /etc/hosts file.
>
> In addition, duplicate entries are bad (tm).
>
> Change it to:
>
> 127.0.0.1	localhost
> 203.45.199.87	caffeine.dyn.dhs.org caffeine securemail.2y.net securemail
>
> Rob
>
> -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 104781119
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