[Techtalk] Fetchmail/Postfix/Hosts

[AzuRose Design]

Between this and this:
(http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cmail2.html) Which I had read
earlier and it just wasn't sinking in.... I think a glimmer of light has
dawned. But check me on theis, so I'm not screwing myself up even
further....

Perhaps what I should be doing is setting up the standard 127.0.0.1 to be
localhost... then assigning my computer an IP from the acceptable IP
addresses for local networks.... even though I don't have a network, nothing
to stop me from being a single-computer network, is there? Then I could set
my "network" IP address to be my desired name.... Feedback? Since I've heard
from a couple of people with a similar setup, I should be able to get it to
work in that configuration, unless y'all see something glaringly wrong with
that....

--Poppy


----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:08:41AM -0800, Poppy Casper wrote:
> > > Umm... why do you need to change the local interface name? Shouldn't
you
> > > change the inet interface (eth0, ppp0, whatever) name instead? I never
> > > touched the localhost line myself.
> > >
> > Need? I suppose it's not a need... more like my stubbornness insisting
that there must
> > be a way to get it to work. And a vain desire to want my shell prompt at
bootup say
> > something other than "login to localhost" *chuckles wryly at herself*
>
> Ok. I'm not the most experienced network guru around, but I've seen
> pretty many network configuration, but never seen kind of /etc/hosts
> configuration you have or somebody having localhost name in FQDN format.
>
> I'm sure you _can_ have different name for localhost, but I would say
> it's just looking for trouble. Especially since there is no need to do
> that.
>
> For example part of my /etc/hosts file:
>
> 127.0.0.1 i        localhost
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX    sirius
>
> And in command my prompt "sirius" is shown as my host name just fine.
> AFAIK "hostname" command changes your hostname (and /etc/hosts) file
> automagically so that it correct and works.
>
> - Sini