Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Wayne Lubin <wayneclubin@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Two Questions Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0110291820030.16874-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011029163532.75231.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Wayne Lubin wrote: > Question 2: > I was learning how to get my floppy drive working, you > know, mount etc... I got it mounted and I was in the > /floppy directory. Did some ls commands and viewed a > couple of files on the floppy with vi. When I was done > I did a umount while I was still in /floppy. When it > unmounted the floppy, I was left in "no mans land". It > was acting as if I was not in any directory. When I > tried a "cd .." the system crashed and rebooted. Now This should not happen; if you can do this reliably, you ought to file a PR about it. > when I boot my system I get the following messages > right next to each other.. > > Recovering vi editor sessions > sendmail[119]: My unqualified hostname unknown; > sleeping for retry > > and then after an annoying 1 min wait(guess it was > sleeping) it comes back and says it will use the short > name for hostname, and finishes booting. > > First of all, in my rc.conf my sendmail is NOT > enabled, which seems to mean that some other program > is trying to access sendmail. Is it not enabled, or is it disabled? If you don't mention sendmail at all in rc.conf, your system will use the default from /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which (on my -STABLE system at least) turns it on. > Secondly,in rc.conf I > have hostname="wayne". My machine does not have a > domain name associated with it, so it is not as if I > can set this variable to anything meaningful. What you're seeing is sendmail failing dismally to resolve "wayne". Slap an entry into your /etc/hosts if you keep it configured to run. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Generalisation is never appropriate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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