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 Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 6:54 am Post subject: Postfix and fetchmail gethostbyname probs |
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First, fetchmail. Or better, fetchmailconf. I can't seem to find the cause of this error.
| Code: | bash-2.05b$ fetchmailconf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fetchmailconf", line 2028, in ?
hostname = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[0]
socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known') |
Although, on second thought, could it be that fetchmailconf requires a fully qualified hostname (or a hostname in /etc/hosts )?
Also postfix comes with an error:
| Code: | | postfix: fatal: gethostbyname: no such file or directory |
This doesn't make any sense at all, since gethostbyname should not be a file or directory but just a standard function call.
I am running fetchmail 6.2.5 and postfix 2.0.19, both have been emerged after installing Gentoo over the weekend.
Any help is welcome. |
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jkt
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| Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| gethostbyname() fails because it has problems with /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts or something similar. please post `ls -al /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts /etc/hostname` and also contents of these files. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:18 am Post subject: |
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| The problem was that I did not have my hostname in /etc/hosts. Since I'm on a private network without DNS servers it was not possible to resolv the hostname. After I added my hostname and the corresponding IP address to /etc/hosts the problem was solved. It still wonders me that I didn't think of this before I actually started this topic. |
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