From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 8:55:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DD837B790 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 08:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([216.94.149.33]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA58868; Sun, 21 May 2000 11:58:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <392818FA.1EE09D4B@wmptl.com> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 13:12:26 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: XF Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail References: <20000521123216.A520@dds.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > -- > Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message either add an entry in /etc/hosts for your machine, or run a DNS service to qualify the name/MX host for your machine. Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message