Starting Mailscanner Error

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jan 3 18:16:45 GMT 2002


At 18:05 03/01/2002, you wrote:
>The machine name

Try changing the hostname so it is all lower-case. It may be the capital Y
that has broken it. Also, check /etc/hosts to ensure it can actually look
up its own name.

Does "ping yoda" work?


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julian Field [mailto:jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
>Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:03 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Starting Mailscanner Error
>
>
>At 17:53 03/01/2002, you wrote:
> >When I try to start mailscanner it says Can't lookup Yoda at
> >/usr/local/Mailscanner/bin/logger.pl line 71
>
>Can't lookup Yoda???
>What on earth is Yoda???
>
>Certainly nothing to do with MailScanner. Have you screwed up the DNS
>lookups? You have killed syslog somehow, check /etc/syslog.conf.
>--
>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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