Playing with a Fedora box, tying to learn how to do what I really want to do with it.

We have a central email account for all our windows boxes where log files are sent to. This makes all the monitoring nice and easy.

I have managed to set up a user in /etc/aliases called logs, which forwards to this address.
I have told root that all mail it should go to logs.

So-far so-good.

The problem I am having is that these mails appear as user@localhost.localdomain.com, and list as user in the logs mail account - at the moment "root"

I have been trying to persuade sendmail to replace the localhost.localdomain with the machine name, but have had no joy...

any help?

Dan

I'm not 100 % positive on this but try to add yourPCname.net to the /etc/mail/local-host-names . Then restart sendmail (just in case) with /etc/init.d/sendmail restart . That should work. Maybe.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no joy.;

All I want is for sendmail to replace @localhost.localdomain with non-junk entries

Dan

On an offchance I tried something, which seems to have worked.

I have edited my hosts file so it now read
Is there any reason whey this may be a problem???

Dan

The only problem I see is that it should be

127.0.0.1 localhost..localdomain localhosts
127.0.0.1 saba.maxfordham.com saba

This is traditionally the way it is done, I believe. But your way seems to work too.