Bug#833296: exim4-config: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config: misleading message

Mauro Salvini mauro.salvini at smigroup.net
Thu Aug 4 08:14:17 UTC 2016


On Thu, 2016-08-04 at 10:07 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Mauro Salvini wrote:
> > After reading bug report discussion, I tried to remove myhostname
> > from /etc/nssswitch.conf:
> > 
> > #hosts:          files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> > hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
> > 
> > With this configuration, exim -bP | grep ^primary_hostname states:
> > 
> > primary_hostname = myhostname.mydomain.local
> > 
> > Message #114 in bug report points me to this.
> > 
> > So is libnss-myhostname the problem?
> 
> I guess so. So this bug report can be closed?

Yes, I think it can be closed.

> 
> I will, anyway, open a marker bug that exim should probably conflict
> with libnss-myhostname.

Ok, that's good.

Thanks again for your precious work and effort.

Greetings
Mauro



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