Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ... Message-ID: <20051129134330.GI33851@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH> References: <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH>
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--/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal > network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative, > right). >=20 > However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots > and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get a bunch of cryptic > error messages. Here's a view of the syslog: >=20 > root@fileserver# tail /var/log/messages > Nov 29 13:51:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry > Nov 29 13:52:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: unable to qualify my own domain n= ame > (fileserver) -- using short name > Nov 29 13:52:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: My unqualified host name > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry > Nov 29 13:53:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: unable to qualify my own > domain name (fileserver) -- using short name > ... > Nov 29 13:56:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: My unqualified host name > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry > Nov 29 13:57:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: unable to qualify my own domain > name (fileserver) -- using short name > ... >=20 > Can anyone please help me? It's missing it's domain name apparently (i.e. the things after the first . in fileserver.my.domain.nl). Either make sure it's in the DNS or list it in /etc/hosts. --Stijn --=20 Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. -- G.K. Chesterton --/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDjFsCY3r/tLQmfWcRAqI7AKCthtmx2yaXRYbDSNpjggWMHTnbhQCeNG7L Xb3yCRmBFLUSfIhxTLKwtOg= =ndDi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK--
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