From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 28 06:07:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA06345 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 06:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA06339 for ; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 06:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z19T9-0006UF-00; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:07:07 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA02385; Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:06:59 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (gppsun4) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07590; Tue, 28 Jul 98 14:06:58 BST Message-Id: <35BDCCD0.BBEA61D9@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 14:06:24 +0100 From: Mark Ovens Organization: Radan Computational Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with a sendmail error References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Hi, > > I keep getting the following errors from sendmail (the messages sent by > > the system). I think (know) I've messed up something in the /etc/rc* > > files when I (temporarily) changed the hostname, IP address, and domain > > to use my machine on the network at work and then changed it back for > > dial-up use. What have I cocked-up??. The machines hostname is marder-1 > > put an entry for marder-1 into /etc/hosts. There is one: 127.0.0.1 marder-1 localhost loghost Someone else replied (but didn't CC: to -questions) and said to check /etc/resolv.conf. This was the problem, when I'd changed the nameserver entries back to my ISP's I'd put the ISP domain name in there as well, which of course it not accessible when not on-line. All seems to be OK now Thanks for replying. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | lacking a zero, they had no way of | | indicating the successful | | termination of their C programs | *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message