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Old 03-25-2013
Error Postfix Configuration:Hostname/Domain Name Doubts

I have a RHEL server where I want to create a mail server so I can send myself alerts whenever X process have problems.

Disclaimer:
Im a programmer thats been forced to do IT. So I'm trying my best here.

The problem:
While configuring Postfix it asks for $myhostname which apparently must be in the format hostname.mydomain.com. I do have my $hostname but I dont know the "mydomain" part.

Do "mydomain" is something I create or its something I should get my the networks admins since the server is connected to my company's network?

If you need output from specific commands let me know.

/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts:
Code:
[root@isvahlrtk01 postfix]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=isvahlrtk01
GATEWAY=XX.XX.XX.XX
[root@isvahlrtk01 postfix]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 isvahlrtk01
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
XX.XX.XX.XX isvahlrtk01

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by RedSpyder; 03-25-2013 at 03:10 PM..
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Old 03-25-2013
Run the following command to display the fully qualified domain name (fqdn). First part is your hostname, last part is your domain name:

Code:
hostname -f

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Old 03-25-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
Run the following command to display the fully qualified domain name (fqdn). First part is your hostname, last part is your domain name:

Code:
hostname -f

This is what I got
Code:
# hostname -f
localhost

I must add that I configured this server on my own. Installed everything from scratch.
 
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