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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!news.co.intel.com!chnews!itnews.sc.intel.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-5.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.mathworks.com!new sfeed.internetmci.com!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Host name Date: 26 Jun 1996 01:26:15 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4qql67$10c@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4qfhju$bi5@uwm.edu> <4qk7ki$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote: : > I'm having trouble with my host name accepted by the system. At boot : > time, I get a "BAD VALUE" message, and the mail daemon gives the : > message "My host name (myname.my.domain) doesn't seem to exist" : Hmm, you don't have a real hostname. myname.my.domain is the pre- : configured dummy. If you don't really need a hostname, do at least : enter the above into /etc/hosts: : 127.0.0.1 localhost. myname.my.domain. : (Note the trailing dots.) You don't need the trailing dots - not in /etc/hosts. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....