From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 13:45:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AEED16A425 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:45:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl (kweetal.tue.nl [131.155.3.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D8C43D9A for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:44:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stijn@pcwin002.win.tue.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B0C13B8D6; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kweetal.tue.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50195-01-11; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from umta.win.tue.nl (umta.win.tue.nl [131.155.71.100]) by kweetal.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D422A13B90C; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcwin002.win.tue.nl (pcwin002 [131.155.71.72]) by umta.win.tue.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED7C31401C; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100 (CET) Received: by pcwin002.win.tue.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C841940C0; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:43:30 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop To: Kiffin Gish Message-ID: <20051129134330.GI33851@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Stijn Hoop , Kiffin Gish , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/NkBOFFp2J2Af1nK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000401c5f4e8$56f27f10$2101a8c0@ZGISH> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Bright-Idea: Let's abolish HTML mail! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tue.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:45:23 -0000 --/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--