Re: change domain name on Openserver 6.0

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:
Steve M. Fabac, Jr. typed (on Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:11:51AM -0500):
| What is the proper way to change the domain name of a
| Openserver 6.0 machine after ISL?
| | During the installation of OS6 on new hardware
| at the client's site, I mistyped the domain name.
| | Changing the domain name in /etc/default/tcp
| results in hostname returning the desired name
| but sendmail blows up and all local mail
| (mail -s "testing" smf) is returned to the
| postmaster as undeliverable.
| | Names below are changed to protect the guilty
| Machinetool.com is not a real name but shows the
| form of the FQN used at the client.
| | Wrong hostname: machine.machine.com
| Corrected: machine.machinetool.com
| | Mail is returned as:
| | The original message was received at Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:13:31 -0500 (CDT)
| from localhost
| with id l2FCDVbS010560
| | ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
| <smf@machine>
| | ----- Transcript of session follows -----
| 550 5.1.2 <smf@machine>... Host unknown (Name server: | machine.machinetool.com.: host not found)
| | | I ran mkdev cf and entered the appropriate settings and rebuilt the | sendmail.cf
| but the result is the same as shown above: local addresses are not being
| detected, and masquerading is not working (should be: smf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).

/usr/mmdf/mmdftailor ??


JP,

mkdev cf automatically updated mmdftailor on 6.0:

; Fake mmdftailor file for use with sendmail. This file
; tells the user agents where to look for mail.
;
MLNAME machine
MLDOMAIN machinetool.com
MDLVRDIR "/usr/spool/mail"
MMBXNAME ""
MMBXPROT 0600

MLCKTYPE advisory


Found the problem: When I ran mkdev cf, I changed the hostname to mail.machinetool.com
without preserving the machine.machinetool.com entry. I edited /etc/mail/local-host-names
and noticed the missing entry for the real name. I corrected local-host-names, then
stopped and restarted sendmail. After that mail -s "testing e-mail" smf worked.

Again, "machine" in the above are bogus to hide the guilty.
.