funky hostname after checking sendmail version

[gre...@yahoo.com]

I checked the board a bit ago to find out how to get the version of
sendmail running on one of our HP servers. I executed the
command "telnet {box-to-find} 25" from the local host back to itself.
However, my connection bombed (server is in another country) and now
I'm seeing this at command line prompt.

[root@-a]:/>hostname
-a
[root@-a]:/>

It's like it can't resolve hostname any more.

Any recommendations?

TIA,
Greg

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In article <93d34h$25t$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
gre...@yahoo.com wrote:

> I checked the board a bit ago to find out how to get the version of
> sendmail running on one of our HP servers. I executed the
> command "telnet {box-to-find} 25" from the local host back to itself.
> However, my connection bombed (server is in another country) and now
> I'm seeing this at command line prompt.
> [root@-a]:/>hostname
> -a
> [root@-a]:/>
> It's like it can't resolve hostname any more.
> Any recommendations?

...

How about reading the hostname man page? And verifying your
/sbin/init.d/hostname script structure? Nothing to do with sendmail ...

- tony

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