Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Morning all, > > I have just come across something that strikes me as a little peculiar. I > don't know if it's a FreeBSD peculiarity, or an Exim oddity. > > My MTA is exim 4.20. I had left the $primary_hostname unset in my config > file, expecting exim to take the return value from uname(3), which is the > stated default action. However, looking through headers of test mails I > sent myself (posts to the list were failing - without bounces...), I found > the hostname was mangled slightly - the last character of the FQDN was > truncated. > > Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.or with local (Exim > ^^^ > > I had a quick look in sys/utsname.h, and lib/libc/gen/uname.c, but don't > know enough C to figure what's going on. Is there a limit on the length of > the nodename that is returned? Or is exim chopping the last character? > > Explicitly setting $primary_hostname in the exim config fixes the problem - > my posts now get through to the list again. > > Just wondered if anyone could shed any light?
According to /usr/include/sys/utsname.h, there is a 32-byte limit on the string that holds the hostname. It looks like it could be boosted without much trouble, but *anything* that used the utsname structure would need to be recompiled. And you'd have to migrate the change forward. Doesn't sound worth it to me... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
