From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 14:33: 7 2002 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 3B72D37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:33:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3419743E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g69LX1Yn034723; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:33:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g69LWuk2034722; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:32:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 22:32:56 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Pascal Giannakakis Cc: shubha mr , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sleeping :-( Message-ID: <20020709213256.GB34506@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020709093100.12622.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com> <26104.1026209374@www42.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <26104.1026209374@www42.gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:09:34PM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: > > when I reboot my machine,it says after a while > > > > sendmail...unidentified my hostname(BSD)..sleeping for > > retry.. > > > > and sleeps.I always do a ctrl + c to get out. > > How do I get rid of this ugly error? > > I'd also like to know the solution to this issue... > > - sendmail starts right until you set the hostname > - the error does not occour, when FreeBSD is online before sendmail starts. What's happening is that sendmail goes to great lengths to look up the local hostname in DNS. Partly that's to work out what the fully qualified name is and partly it's because DNS is central to the workings of e-mail transport, and if the local host isn't properly registered or can't access internet DNS servers then it's probably time to give up. It is (as far as I understand) possible to run sendmail without any reference to the DNS, but exceedingly difficult. It's probably easier to learn all about DNS from scratch and fix the problems that way... Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message