From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 8:52:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6445337B790 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 08:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA96786; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:52:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 11:52:10 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: XF Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <20000521115210.B96573@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000521123216.A520@dds.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000521123216.A520@dds.nl>; from gin@dds.nl on Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:32:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 12:32:16PM +0200, XF wrote: > > hello, i'm having some weird problems with sendmail > i'm my log and terminal i see this: > > May 21 23:34:54 Foobar sendmail[269]: My unqualified host name (Foobar) > unknown; sleeping for retry > May 21 23:34:54 Foobar sendmail[269]: unable to qualify my own domain name > (Foobar) -- using short name > > what can i do about it without losing the hostname of my freebsd computer? > it's on a LAN. It looks like you have hostname and resolver problems. I guess 'Foobar' is your unqualified hostname? Why not 'Foobar.somewhere.org' where 'somewhere.org' is chosen appropriately? Besides these messages, does sendmail actually work? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message