Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:21:08 +1300 From: Doug Hawkins <illusion65@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running sendmail w/o FQDN Message-ID: <43A20874.1000109@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051215103556.GA904@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <e572718c0512141659i54aeabd7sd0d8b63edfc5ff7c@mail.gmail.com> <43A116DB.8090608@russellmeek.net> <e572718c0512150030u79fa3e8dhf02cf56113755fd9@mail.gmail.com> <20051215103556.GA904@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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I am also having problems with sendmail configuration on my machine. I
suppose it's all related to the fact that I don't have a fully qualified
domain name (FQDN), but I have not been able to find a simple method to
allow sendmail to operate as the "local message manager" without having
a FQDN -- and not complain about it. I've skimmed the 180k
'/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README' and 'man sendmail' and a few .cf files.
There must be a simple way to have a "development' machine that's on a
private LAN which has internet access and DNS via a router, but is not
allocated an FQDN. When I wasn't running 'inetd' everything was fine,
but I'd like those services (ftp, Samba's swat, etc.) to be available to
the other LAN machines.
I also get the 'sendmail sleeping' message when the machine is booting
because it can't find its FQDN.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Doug
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I get this in my message log every 10 minutes:
{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: netbios-ns/udp: bind: Address already in use
{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
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"Networking and Services" part of my /etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_rl0="DHCP" # Handled by my ADSL router/modem
hostname="beastie"
sendmail_enable="NO"
inetd_enable="YES"
nfs_client_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_flags="-b tk1.ihug.co.nz"
router_enable="NO"
rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
rpc_statd_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
dictd_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
mysql_dbdir="/bsd5/var/db/mysql"
samba_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"
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