legacy hostname problem

[Jesse Meyer]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, wsykes.lists wrote:

> All,
>
> I have a Debian host that used to be called dnimail.
> I have since changed the name to mail.
> I did this by editing the /etc/host and /etc/hostname file.
>
> when i ping dnimail i get "unknown host dnimail"
> when I ping mail i get icmp echos and replies.
>
> the problem is when i try to send mail to a user from using teh command line
> "mail"
> it tries to send the mail to the user@dnimail which obviously does not
> exist.

Command: su -c 'grep -r dnimail /etc 2>/dev/null | less'

~ Jesse Meyer

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[Paul Johnson]

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:13:58PM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote:

> I have also stopped and restarted postfix....

shutdown -rf now

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