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08-24-2005, 07:52 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: South Africa Johannesburg
Distribution: RH 9, Suse 8,9 , Ubuntu
Posts: 7
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"hard error" configuring qmail
I am new to a forum, i found Linuxquestion.org to be quite good.
My problem is that when i run "./config" as part of the LWQ (Life With Qmail) it comes up with the following error:
"Your hostname is servername.domainname.co.za.
hard error
Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
You will have to set up control/me yourself. "
i've though about my DNS and some of the qmail control files, but i am not getting anywhere.
can someone give me some pointers.
I'm running Red Hat 9, on a dual Xeon server, with 1Gb Ram and 400Gb HD.
I'll answer any question about the way my server is setup.
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08-27-2005, 11:50 AM
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Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Scotland
Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian
Posts: 12,047
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If you run:
dig +short servername.domainname.co.za
Does it return your server IP address?
If not then you will need to add it to your DNS server.
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08-29-2005, 03:53 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: South Africa Johannesburg
Distribution: RH 9, Suse 8,9 , Ubuntu
Posts: 7
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when i run "dig +short servername.domainname.co.za", i dont get anything.
But is it necessary to run a DNS server on the mail server. Sorry to sound stupid, but which file do i add this information (My server's IP Address) into.
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11-18-2005, 09:20 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Suse 9.1, Suse 10.0, FC3, Knoppix, DSL, Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, Kubuntu
Posts: 28
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Try running ./config-fast pcname.domainname.co.za
e.g. ./config-fast mail.bob.co.za
Or you could always try following the tutorial at www.qmailrocks.com
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11-22-2005, 04:35 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: South Africa Johannesburg
Distribution: RH 9, Suse 8,9 , Ubuntu
Posts: 7
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I got it working a few months back already. There are some steps that you need to skip, depending on your current server configuration at that time.
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