Re: legacy hostname problem

From: Jesse Meyer (meyer_at_btinet.net)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:21:47 -0500
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, wsykes.lists wrote:

    > All,
    >
    > I have a Debian host that used to be called dnimail.
    > I have since changed the name to mail.
    > I did this by editing the /etc/host and /etc/hostname file.
    >
    > when i ping dnimail i get "unknown host dnimail"
    > when I ping mail i get icmp echos and replies.
    >
    > the problem is when i try to send mail to a user from using teh command line
    > "mail"
    > it tries to send the mail to the user@dnimail which obviously does not
    > exist.

    Command: su -c 'grep -r dnimail /etc 2>/dev/null | less'

    ~ Jesse Meyer 

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