On 2011-02-17 09:56:35 +0000, Jonathan Plews wrote: > I think that, unless it explicitly set, the hostname is derived form DNS > lookups.
No, I think that $HOST is obtained from /etc/hostname (AFAIK, it is set by Debian at installation time). > you can test this with changes to /etc/hosts, hostname -f and the string > exim gives on connect will be the same. > > x.x.x.x host host.domain.tld - will report just 'host' This is incorrect. You should not do this, see hosts(5) man page. > x.x.x.x host.domain.tld host - will report 'host.domain.tld' "hostname -f" will report host.domain.tld, but this is not $HOST (which is used by monit). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
