Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:22:54 -0400 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Subject: Re: localhost Message-ID: <20020630172254.GF319@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c2203a$c4d59980$3e056dd4@chappe2> References: <000a01c2203a$c4d59980$3e056dd4@chappe2>
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Thomas, > Suddenly my freeBSD stops loading for a while with (/etc/messages): I hope you mean /var/log/messages. > sendmail[74]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping > for retry : Unable to qualify my own domain name > (localhost) -- using short name What is your system's hostname.. # uname -n # egrep ^hostname /etc/rc.conf # egrep ^domain /etc/resolv.conf ..and what do you have for localhost and your system's hostname in /etc/hosts? Yours should look something like this: # uname -n hal9000.halplant.com # egrep ^hostname /etc/rc.conf hostname="hal9000.halplant.com" # egrep 'hal|localhost' /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.halplant.com 68.100.145.31 hal9000.halplant.com halplant.com www.halplant.com mail.halplant.com hal9000 hal # egrep ^domain /etc/resolv.conf [I don't have domain set - I use a search path] I suspect you have your hostname aliased to the loopback address (127.0.0.1) and have "localhost" first. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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