Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 22:46:56 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Firas Kraiem <fkraiem@enib.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and hostname Message-ID: <20070403204656.GB9413@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200704032229.44098.fkraiem@enib.fr> References: <200704032229.44098.fkraiem@enib.fr>
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--z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Firas Kraiem wrote: > Greetings >=20 > I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver : >=20 > Apr 3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice) > unknown; sleeping for retry >=20 > From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies proba= bly=20 > in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes : >=20 > 127.0.0.1 localhost alice > 192.168.1.2 alice The hostname "alice" should have a domain part. And it should match the hostname that is set in /etc/rc.conf. E.g, if /etc/rc.conf says hostname=3D"alice.home.net" then /etc hosts should have ::1 localhost localhost.home.net 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.home.net 192.168.1.2 alice alice.home.net HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGEr1AEnfvsMMhpyURAh6YAJ9quNCCDZGU0MkubyA5tc1SMO+kCwCfdat9 8ZV2JkO0R75QT6Fepam27p8= =z6AQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z6Eq5LdranGa6ru8--
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