Re: donegal fell into hyperspace and can't get up

[Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com>]

I apologize if you already received this, but I'm not quite sure it 
got sent out the first time I tried to send it:

  Thankyou so much, Jim and Steve.  My problem with sendmail is
now solved.  You emboldened me to try doing exactly what it says
NOT to do in the header of /etc/hosts.  I can't specify an IP
address for my hostname because I'm only on the net when I dial
up my provider, who allocates addresses dynamically, so I just 
added the line
 127.0.0.1  donegal
  By God, it did the trick - 
sendmail doesn't complain, and actually moves the mail.

  This is my /etc/hosts :

#
# hosts		This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
#		mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
#		used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
#		On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
#		"named" name server.  Just add the names, addresses
#		and any aliases to this file...
#
# By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@example.com> says that 127.0.0.1
# should NEVER be named with the name of the machine.  It causes problems
# for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^)
#

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.0.1	donegal


# End of hosts.

  I'm a little nervous about problems that this might cause further down
the road, but it sure works.  The thing is though, as Steve said, sendmail
ought to be able to figure out that donegal is localhost.  Things certainly
were not this way in my earlier Slackware installation, and should not be
this way now.  If anyone can figure out a more elegant solution that would
allow me to remove this line from /etc/hosts, I'd feel better about it.

  Great to be running again though.  Thanks again, guys.

Dennis McMurchy, 
Tojinmachi, Fukuoka

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