[Mailman-Users] Mailman not sending - Solved(?)

[bronto at csd-bes.net]

Quoting John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>:

> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 11:27 -0700, bronto at csd-bes.net wrote:
>> Thanks for your corrections and tips.
>>
>> I made the changes, and it still didn't work.  I read the thread you
>> referenced, and verified that my permissions and users were correct.
>>
>> I then went back to look at my dns and machine settings, and found that
>> my host name had reverted back to the machine name, not the full name I
>> changed to it to previously that "fixed" the problem.  So it wasn't
>> that it was working for just one list and not others, it was that the
>> fix that I previously made reverted before I tested other mailing
>> lists.  When I changed it back again, all the files in the retry queue
>> flushed and I got a bunch of messages delivered on serveral lists.
>>
>> I'm running SuSE 9.2; maybe there's a process running somewhere that is
>> doing this.  I know there are processes that keep permissions and other
>> settings in sync.  If this reverts again, I think the logical solution
>> would be to find where SuSE is deciding what hostname to use and change
>> it, or to change mm-cfg to match the hostname that SuSE wants to use.
>
> I can't speak for SuSE nor do I know how you changed your hostname, but
> I can tell you this, if you used the plain hostname command that change
> will not persist across reboots. See the hostname man page on your
> system for how to make a permanent change. Also, if your machine is
> being assigned a permanent IP address via a local DHCP server you will
> likely have to make that change in the DHCP configuration.

Thanks, the server has not rebooted, and the IP address is fixed.

Rob



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