From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 10:25:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B4F37B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 10:25:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:25:12 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 15yH3D-00067d-00; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:22:19 +0000 Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 18:22:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Wayne Lubin Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Two Questions In-Reply-To: <20011029163532.75231.qmail@web14707.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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