Postfix/Network config out of the box - was: Re: Please participate in the Ubuntu Popularity Contest !

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 7/17/06, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>
> It should be (and defaults to) the name of the box you give during the install
> routine.

What I had in my configuration following a stock install of Desktop
was the following:

* In /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost circe
127.0.1.1 circe
(And then a listing of IPv6 addresses)

* In /etc/postfix/main.cf
myhostname = localhost

* In /etc/hostname

circe

The Desktop install does not allow one to set the FQDN of the machine.
 If you enter a dotted name in the hostname configuration of the
installer, it gives you an error and tells you that it can only be a
single word.

If the Networking control panel is used to modify /etc/hosts, the the
entry for 127.0.0.1 will end up looking either like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost circe
(If the FQDN does not exist in /etc/hostname)

Or this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain circe.inetdb.com
(If the FQDN is set correctly in /etc/hostname)

I can't explain the differences that you see other than the knowledge
that the server installation routine uses the older text based
installer while the Desktop one uses the new graphical Ubiquity
installer.  Perhaps there are some differences in how these two
installers localize the machine during installation.

Can some other folks that have installed Ubuntu off the Desktop CD
relate their experiences with installing postfix, please?

-- 
Chris

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