When I run the command hostname
(on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server) it returns 'mail.mydomain.com'
When I run hostname -f
I get 'mail' as a response.
These seem backwards to me, shouldn't hostname -f
return the FQDN? Where did I misconfigure this?
When I run the command hostname
(on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server) it returns 'mail.mydomain.com'
When I run hostname -f
I get 'mail' as a response.
These seem backwards to me, shouldn't hostname -f
return the FQDN? Where did I misconfigure this?
Yes, hostname -f
should return the FQDN. Try:
/etc/hostname
put the "short" hostname (mail
). /etc/resolv.conf
put domain mydomain.com
.There are probably other ways to do it; that's just how I have my system configured (and it seems to work).