From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 07:26:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13710 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wilkshire.net (root@wilkshire.net [207.206.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13623 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 07:25:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeff@wilkshire.net) Received: from graphic.wilkshire.net ([207.206.44.17]) by wilkshire.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA04607 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:24:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Jeff Hartman" To: Subject: popper error Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:22:45 -0500 Message-ID: <01bd2c00$958e6040$112ccecf@graphic.wilkshire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk hello, i have a copy of freebsd running on a test machine. this machine handles it's own primary dns, email and apache web server. everything is working fine, but the popper daemon intermitently sends a message to the screen: "the date" popper[a number] (v2.4b2) Unable to get canoical named of client, err = 0 also, the sendmail daemon hangs on startup, i must cancel during the boot up phase and start named and sendmail daemons once the system is up and running. i tried putting the domain name in the sendmail.cw file, and have tried various other settings. no go. once the system is up, everything runs fine. any ideas? thank you jeff h.