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| author | Glenn Morris | 2007-04-19 17:07:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Glenn Morris | 2007-04-19 17:07:15 +0000 |
| commit | 53b30c3870ad6f8dad14040725e2dd2f9f3eab23 (patch) | |
| tree | e846afd06c7c238c9bfbd85afe6a5c048e0b1f2b | |
| parent | 4e96ebbce55da2d5f996ddcf573c7f4f94871bad (diff) | |
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Expand a bit on Emacs not knowing fqdn.
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/PROBLEMS | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index 6c72bacae11..4d4603b4be0 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS | |||
| @@ -386,9 +386,13 @@ again to say this: | |||
| 386 | 386 | ||
| 387 | *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. | 387 | *** Emacs does not know your host's fully-qualified domain name. |
| 388 | 388 | ||
| 389 | For example, (system-name) returns some variation on | ||
| 390 | "localhost.localdomain", rather the name you were expecting. | ||
| 391 | |||
| 389 | You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, | 392 | You need to configure your machine with a fully qualified domain name, |
| 390 | either in /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system | 393 | (i.e. a name with at least one ".") either in /etc/hosts, |
| 391 | calls for specifying this. | 394 | /etc/hostname, the NIS, or wherever your system calls for specifying |
| 395 | this. | ||
| 392 | 396 | ||
| 393 | If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable | 397 | If you cannot fix the configuration, you can set the Lisp variable |
| 394 | mail-host-address to the value you want. | 398 | mail-host-address to the value you want. |