james Tanit wrote: > Could someone please share some thoughts on how to set up the /etc/hosts and > /etc/aliases? This is tough to set up due to the poorly written manual. >
under normal circumstances, /etc/hosts should have only two entries. the exception to this may be if you're using NFS, then hosts should have any NFS clients and servers names (unless you do your NFS mounts by IP address, something I don't really recommend). 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain xxx.yyy.zzz.www hostname hostname.domainname.com /etc/aliases would contain any email aliases you want, for instance, if you want all mail to root to go to local account jamest... root: jamest there's usually a bunch of sorta stock aliases, like postmaster, etc, these usually go to root, which in turn you forward to whomever. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos