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[AMaViS-user] FW: amavis hostname problem

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Donald G. Knecht

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Aug 11, 2010, 1:01:09 PM8/11/10

Tried several experiments today,
First I deleted the old amavisd.conf and tried to start amavis....
I got a nice error message saying amavisd.conf is missing, so amavis IS at
least checking for the existence of the config file.
Next I installed the config file and played around changing the $mydomain
variable.
I tried removing the hyphen from the domain so that it read $mydomain =
'domainname.com'
I still get the error message saying 'domain-name' is not a fqdn.....so this
proves that
the variable is not being read from the config file and is being supplied in
error
from somewhere else, possibly uname?

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald G. Knecht [mailto:do...@hastys.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:40 AM
To: 'Mark Martinec'; 'amavi...@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: RE: [AMaViS-user] amavis hostname problem

Yes that is what my problem is.....the error message says that BUT the fqdn
IS in the config file...
It seems that the config file is not being read

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Martinec [mailto:Mark.Marti...@ijs.si]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 9:55 AM
To: amavi...@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis hostname problem

Donald,

> The fqdn IS specified in /etc/ amavisd.conf -BUT amavis seems to ignore
it.
> $myhostname='host-name.com'

> It IS in single quotes....i accidentally deleted the quotes when I edited
> out my real domain name.

| Starting virus-scanner (amavisd-new): The value of variable $myhostname
| is "host-name", but should have been a fully qualified domain name

The diagnostics message disproves your claim, it says your $myhostname
was 'host-name' (non-fqdn), not 'host-name.com' (a fqdn).

Mark

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Donald G. Knecht

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Aug 11, 2010, 3:59:15 PM8/11/10

Making progress.......SuSE's uname is part of the problem...
uname -n reports only the short hostname, i.e. 'domain-name' instead of the
fqdn.
Temporary work around is to add the fqdn using the hostname command, then
amavis will start.
I thought that amvis was supposed to use what you assign to the variable
$myhostname in the config??

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