Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:36:17 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My unqualified host name Message-ID: <18650.20577.490303.567389@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <48d9ca8c.RZOeanRudui/84j4%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <119697.2728.qm@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <2A271C1D-8157-41B3-A2B1-EF57ECFD81FE@mac.com> <48d9ca8c.RZOeanRudui/84j4%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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perryh@pluto.rain.com writes: > > > "nyana sm-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown; > > > sleeping for retry" > > > > ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for > > the machine to have a valid FQDN. Either set that up, or add > > sendmail_enable="NONE" to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ... > > There is another approach, which is to ignore the message. After > something like 3 repetitions, at something like a minute apart, > it will give up on qualifying its name. Everything seems to work > just fine thereafter until the next boot, when the entire > sequence repeats. Respectfully, my gut reaction is this is, if not /bad/ practice, at least not /good/ practice. The requirements for geting sendmail to behave (at least in this regard) are not particularly onerous; why not just diagnose and fix the root problem? Robert Huff
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