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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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest Fedora 15 Installation Guide How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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.
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
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
Jack's fix is still present in the F19 version of the book, so let's call this verified.