From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 3:59:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bilch.com (ns.bilch.com [62.145.29.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9A237B407 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 03:59:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from heiner@bilch.com) Received: from hasel.schlaf.Bilch.COM (hasel.schlaf.bilch.com [10.0.0.3]) by ns.bilch.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA44645; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:59:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from heiner@bilch.com) Received: from bilch.com (localhost.schlaf.bilch.com [127.0.0.1]) by hasel.schlaf.Bilch.COM (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5TAxNV28891; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:59:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from heiner@bilch.com) Message-ID: <3B3C5F8A.FAA1A403@bilch.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:59:23 +0200 From: Heiner Strauss X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Kenny , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Sendmail - Qualify Domain name??? References: <20010628092024.80557.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Gavin Kenny wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting messages in the console from sendmail > saying "Unable to qualify domain name - using short > name". The machine doesn't have a domainname set in rc.conf If you don't want this you could tell sendmail what the domainname is. Take a look at sendmail.cf or your mc file. > > > What does this mean? And why is Sendmail doing > anything as I thought I'd turned it off by putting > sendmail_enable="NO" in rc.conf Because every FreeBSD machine is sending mail at about 2:00 am. You have just disabled sendmail as a deamon. Watch your crontab. > > > thanks > > Gavin > You are welcome Heiner -- Heiner Strauss heiner@bilch.com Bilch International Consulting www.bilch.com (under construction) Hamburg Markusstrasse 4 20355 Hamburg Tel:. 49 40 3480667 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message