From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 16:05:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3435FC2A for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 16:05:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F14DAFE7 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 16:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.27] (rbn1-216-180-76-199.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.199]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s89G59aS029593 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 11:05:09 -0500 Message-ID: <540F26AC.7040309@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:11:24 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: minor sendmail issue .... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 16:05:11 -0000 .... I am getting sendmail notifications in my messages file as such: Sep 9 03:01:00 kabini1 sendmail[44668]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:02:00 kabini1 sendmail[44668]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:02:24 kabini1 sendmail[44737]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:03:24 kabini1 sendmail[44737]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:03:24 kabini1 sendmail[44742]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:04:24 kabini1 sendmail[44742]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44912]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44953]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44954]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:06:01 kabini1 sendmail[44971]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44912]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44953]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44954]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 03:07:01 kabini1 sendmail[44971]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 04:30:00 kabini1 sendmail[45139]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 04:31:00 kabini1 sendmail[45139]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name Sep 9 04:55:00 kabini1 sendmail[45217]: My unqualified host name (jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 9 04:56:00 kabini1 sendmail[45217]: unable to qualify my own domain name (jaguar) -- using short name This is happening (I think) because I am on a LAN, w/ no domain name, no DNS servers running, just local machine names. I got/get the same thing under linux, although I get fewer of them because Linux combines all of its logwatch stuff into 1 grand message, so only 1 batch of these notifications. I am getting more under FBSD 9.3 because I get more logwatch/cron messages, each begetting a group of the above notifications. These are kinda swamping other stuff in the messages file, is there a way to suppress these notifications from sendmail ? TIA .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.