On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, tarvid wrote: > The problem with localhost as a hostname
Exactly, go vote for bugs like this in bugzilla (they are there). > install. The hostname and domainname are lost after reboot and you have to > configure them. > > Usually you will add or modify dns servers postinstall and resolv.conf will > change. > > Then you will get: > > Mar 11 11:33:01 localhost postfix/postfix-script: warning: > /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.con > f and /etc/resolv.conf differ > > Mar 11 11:08:32 localhost postfix/postfix-script: warning: > /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and > /etc/hosts differ > > I took careful contemporaneous notes this time since I have several more to > do. > > And if you don't want postfix listening on eth0 why not cripple httpd and let > it only listen on localhost too. Lets do courier and imap and dns while we > are at it. Because stmp can be very useful in local-only mode, whereas apache, imap, dns, samba, sshd etc are usually only useful from other client machines. > > The localhost issue is a Mandrake issue, not a postfix issue. Exactly (actually, specific to Mandrake 9.1 betas/rcs/cooker). See bugs filed on installation and drakxtools. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
