How can I change this boring root@localhost thing to
something like root@domain.com?
Not only it's boring, even some email servers won't accept my mail.
Any help appreciated,
Thank you.

The config files are located in the "/etc/sysconfig" tree. Change localhost to whatever you want.

Are you spending alot of time as root? The recommended behavior is to use a normal user account and then use the "su" command to become root only when *required*.

zmedico,
I searched all over /etc/susconfig, but couldn't find anything about localhost.
Could you give me the exact location?
By the way, no, I'm not spending that much time using root. It just irritates me, you know,
Thanks.

use
linuxconf
thats easier

I'm using Linuxconf 1.24 (subrev 2)
I can't find it guys, I must be a blind or something..

I'm using RedHat 7.2 and the relevent files seem to be in this
file:
/etc/sysconfig/network

and in this directory:
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default

After you make changes, you can do this to restart your network service:

/sbin/service network restart

Hmm, I guess things got changed in RH 7.2.
I don't have the networking folder, under
/etc/sysconfig/

linuxconf is unstable and buggy.. i wouldn't recommend it. its also not installed by default anymore after 7.0

What Trickykid said, Linuxconf is buggy and hatchets your init into a giant googly mess. That, and no one is shipping it by defualt.

In RedHat, the file is

/etc/sysconfig/network

Edit that and change:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain

to...

NETWORKING-yes
HOSTNAME=FinGivesAStraightAnswer.whatever.com

That would change the name of the machine to something exceedingly long... however, your mail problem is coming from the entry in /etc/hosts. LEAVE the localhost entry, but add one for your machine, like:

123.123.123.123 YeahBob.whatever.com whatever

That is if you want your mail to originate from root@yeahbob.whatever.com, otherwise, just cut out the hostname and have:

123.123.123.123 whatever.com

Also, make sure to replace that bogus mess with your IP address.

Cheers,

Finegan

P.S. Your are either going to have to take this to runlevel 1 and then back to 3 and hand kill and restart sendmail... OR, just reboot the machine to have this take effect.

This is what I was looking for..
Thank you guys,
Solved the problem at last..

I dont think linuxconf is unstable. I have been using it for some time and don't find any reason to label it as unstable.

Whats so unstable abt it?

Linuxconf subrev 4 got some problems with mail configuration.
It messed up my aliases last time, so I'm currently using subrev 2.

The simpler the better.

hi,

@fingan:

NETWORKING-yes
HOSTNAME=FinGivesAStraightAnswer.whatever.com


I had the same Problem as Stingreen and now I can send the messages without any complaint from mutt but there is uncertainty in my mind about this whole thing.

I mean all of my emails seem to come from "FinGivesAStraightAnswer.whatever.com" and all the replies to that emails come through that server aswell.

Can`t it be that the webmaster of that server may not like that and give me a warning at some time?? I if it were legal than it is almost an open invitation to SPAMMERS ??

I can`t believe this is tolerated by all servers...

Am I mixing up some things or what??

what do you think ppl??

Realos

I tring too see my win 2k machine for my redhat 7.2 box. They cannot seem to see each other. Please excuse me , i'm new to linux. I have dhcp installed and can access the internet form both machines. I have tried seaching for the linux box but not coming up anything. I'm lost, any help would be nice.



Thanks in advance,

Newbie

hi buddies,

I have got that problem in Debian 3.1 (Knoppix 3.1).

My /etc/hosts has "127.0.0.1 myhost.something.net myhost"
/etc/hostname has only one line "myhost.something.net"

Since I am new to Debian, I do not know where to change the settings so that mail written by me seem to come from myself@mydomain.com instead of from "realos@Knoppix".

Any hint or reference to a doc is well appreciated,