I understood that FQDNs should be specified in /etc/hosts (at
	least as an alias)?

		David/absolute

	  -=-  Maybe your misinterpretation of my actions is 
	      in conflict with your misconception of who I am  -=-

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> 
> 	Good evening,
> 
>         Installing the apache pkg and starting like suggested 
>         doesn't work without tweaking some files first:
> 
>         miyu# /usr/pkg/sbin/apachectl start
>         httpd: cannot determine local host name.
>         Use ServerName to set it manually.
>         /usr/pkg/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> 
>         I'm running a DNS on this machine, and /etc/hosts only
>         has the hostname without domain listed:
>         10.0.0.3        miyu ns www www-proxy irc news 
> 
>         If I add the FQDN, this works. Can we fix this somehow
> 	(maybe by not adding a '#' in front of the ServerName in
> 	httpd.conf that's determined correctly)?
> 
> 	The right solution (to me) would be to fix apache here,
> 	but i guess that's beyond our scope.
> 
> 
> 		 - Hubert
> 
> -- 
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
>