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Re: changing local domain name

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On 3/30/2018 6:11 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 30 Mar 2018 at 08:05:31 (+0200), john doe wrote:
>> On 3/29/2018 9:56 PM, mick crane wrote:
>>> On 2018-03-29 19:34, Curt wrote:
>>>> On 2018-03-29, mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> following recent about hostname it seems I've been under
>>>>> misunderstanding that ".local" was OK so now I change local domain to
>>>>> ".home" .
>>>>> It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where.
>>>>> apache
>>>>> roundcube
>>>>> postfix
>>>>> now my ISP SMTP server is moaning.
>>>>>
>>>>> think I got them all except cups is unhappy, I don't know why.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's actually a wiki on this:
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/ChangeHostname
>>>>
>>>> For cups you might look at
>>>>
>>>> /etc/printcap
>>>>
>>>> the part after rm=
>>>>   rm=einstein
>>>>      ********
>>>>
>>>> Of course that part is the part to the left of the first dot in your
>>>> fqdn.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, good luck (my hostname is incorrect, but as it has never caused
>>>> me any misery, I've left well enough alone up to this point).
>>>
>>> Oh, there's more in /var. I'm going to ignore the binary files as
>>> I don't think they are current and I don't know how to edit them
>>> anyway.
>>> In fact the installation is a bit old I could do with tidying it
>>> all up anyway so I might as well start afresh.
>>>
>>
>> I  always start from scratch when I need to change the
>> hostname/domain on a host.
>> That's probably the only reason I need to start afresh!
> 
> Unless you're running an advertised server, in which case one would
> wonder why you felt the need to change things (perhaps part of a
> bigger disruption), I can only say I find this rather extreme. 

Thanks for the caution.
As part of improving my network; I went for meaningless hostname and 
using CNAME record to better describe the host.

> Years ago, I would clone a system (or build in a different box) and then
> move it into its new home with very few files to alter. About the only
> confusion caused was to ARP, and that only happened when I was on
> thinwire ethernet and lasted a few minutes.
> 
> I've struggled to find a multitude of files with the name of the
> domain in them. Beyond hosts and mailname, where are you finding them
> all? 

For starter I use recursive grep on '/etc' '/home' ...

-- 
John Doe

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changing local domain name mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 19:10 +0200
  Re: changing local domain name Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-29 20:40 +0200
    Re: changing local domain name mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-03-29 22:00 +0200
      Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-03-30 08:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 18:20 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-04-03 08:40 +0200
            Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-12 22:30 +0200
              Re: changing local domain name john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-04-13 13:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-13 14:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-04-13 14:50 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-13 15:10 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-13 16:10 +0200
    Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 00:10 +0200
      Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 04:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-03-30 10:40 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 15:10 +0200
        Re: changing local domain name Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-03-30 20:30 +0200
          Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-31 04:20 +0200
            Re: changing local domain name Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-03-31 13:40 +0200
              Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-03-31 17:20 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-03-31 17:30 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-03-31 20:50 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-04-03 00:10 +0200
                Re: changing local domain name Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-04-03 13:30 +0200

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