[Gllug] sendmail and local users

[Magnus Nilsson]

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 12:36, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A box I help administer is in the process of changing hostname.  There are a
> dns entries for the oldname and the new name so both resolve correctly and
> the reverse lookup resolves to the new name.  The problem we have is with
> mail delivery.  When sending mail from the box (by invoking sendmail) the
> mail gets the old hostname appended to the username and we can't work out
> why.  Could someone suggest why it's not picking up the new hostname for
> this?
> hostname reports the new hostname and there is no reference to the old
> hostname in sendmail.cf that we can see.
> 

'grep -ri <oldhostname> /etc'

//Magnus


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