Bug 720595

Summary: Instruction with regard to hostname conflicts with default sendmail settings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Documentation Reporter: Alexander Volovics <a.volovic>
Component: install-guideAssignee: Chuck Frain <linux>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ruediger Landmann <rlandman+disabled>
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Adds a line to suggest that some programs may prefer a FQDN rather than a simple host name none

Description Alexander Volovics 2011-07-12 08:04:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

In the Fedora 15 documentation, Installation Guide,
paragraph 8.8 'Setting the Hostname' it is stated:
'You may give your system any name provided that the full hostname is unique'.

If you give your machine hostname "dog" for instance, everything
will work without problems but sendmail will keep complaining:
  
  unable to qualify my own domain name (dog) -- using short name:
  My unqualified host name (dog) unknown; sleeping for retry:

This is a bit untidy. This behaviour should have been mentioned
and a 'fix' suggested.

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Latest Fedora 15 Installation Guide

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Comment 1 Karsten Wade 2011-12-14 04:25:12 UTC 
Moving this bug to the 'Fedora Documentation' product - it's a different grouping of bugs in bugzilla. This will reassign the bug to the actual writers of this guide.

The condition the bug reports appears to still exist, with regard to the quoted sections from the documentation:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Installation_Guide/sn-Netconfig-x86.html

I have not done further testing nor do I know if the reported problem with sendmail occurs.
Comment 2 Chuck Frain 2012-03-03 03:30:59 UTC 
Created attachment 567221 [details]
Adds a line to suggest that some programs may prefer a FQDN rather than a simple host name

This adds a line to Netconfig_common-note-1.xml to indicate that some programs prefer a FQDN rather than a short hostname
Comment 3 Jack Reed 2012-03-07 02:54:10 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this, Alexander.

And thanks very much for the solution and the patch, Chuck. I've updated the guide with it ready for F17 in commit 18f7a194da3ac52b1345ee7524e9e71b8051ec0a
Comment 4 Petr Bokoc 2013-09-17 10:15:12 UTC 
Jack's fix is still present in the F19 version of the book, so let's call this verified.