On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 00:18 -0800, oldman wrote:
> I recently purchased a router, got it all set up most everything
> still works, but I do not get the daily logwatch message any longer on
> either my own log-in nor on root's. I do get this spurious smart
> error message so the mail system is working, the aliases file is
> correct.
>
> I did also change the localhost.localdomain via
> system-config-network and the smart message that I get indicates the
> hostname is the name I added. I seem to have the same problem on FC6
> and Rawhide, so I'm pretty sure it's something I didn't know about.
How's your hostname set? I had mine accidentally set as a
fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), rather than just a hostname, so root
mail was attempting to be sent to the wrong place.
e.g. a hostname: "mine"
a domainname: "localhost.localdomain"
a FQDN: "mine.localhost.localdomain"
The system adds the domain name to the hostname, trying to make a fully
qualified domain name. Incorrectly using "mine.localhost.localdomain"
as the hostname, results in an erroneous fully-qualified domain name
like: "mine.localhost.localdomain.localhost.localdomain", which doesn't
work.
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(This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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