From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 22:08:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68BD16A400 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 22:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ersaloz@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF8713C43E for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 22:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ersaloz@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so959042ugh for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:08:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:importance:x-mimeole; b=RqHOD7o0uD/ldBCyjfBTs90WpltGBL1XrYxgppYCfxhy7MLepP7iG+mn/gmoYM6+dfTJLh5lrBJfGtyEev3zplzUh56TR90Nu03xWZSc4MuTKxib1FeDRrXSp0EXO+cEX3dnqxT/gz1zBePrA+wDn6x5SGdVLfMYyMIA+AiDL/Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:importance:x-mimeole; b=Bn0z4xCOCw1k3nTN3FIETe4Vn0PWrQf2bbva3R/WuQaE8/yfjgrTeRdUG6XQCzZkc9hhxiKG49+jBTVTAQakx0/G4Cy8wt0bv+i/iDdNqNHdaeXOXi7z/dsWSNfyw3MZRMlAKjZtErvTAWXFayCXVboyCLLU43RhM/iCznIk1CQ= Received: by 10.67.115.14 with SMTP id s14mr4703599ugm.1179094079437; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asinusaureus ( [81.32.81.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 29sm10227914uga.2007.05.13.15.07.56; Sun, 13 May 2007 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ernest Sales" To: Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 00:07:54 +0200 Message-ID: <000001c795ab$2a1b7fe0$2101a8c0@asinusaureus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Subject: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:08:01 -0000 A laptop running 6-STABLE is connected to the Internet thru a DSL modem-router doing NAT. It gets a dynamic local IP (fairly recurring 192.168.1.33) at every boot. Of course there is no FQDN for this host. Lately (after a sendmail upgrade?) init shows some oddities: /etc/rc: DEBUG: checkyesno: sendmail_submit_enable is set to YES. /etc/rc: DEBUG: run_rc_command: evaluating /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30 m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost(). May 12 21:59:35 asinusaureus sm-mta[970]: My unqualified host name (asinusaureus ) unknown; sleeping for retry [...after quite a while...] May 12 22:06:20 asinusaureus sm-mta[970]: unable to qualify my own domain name ( asinusaureus) -- using short name [...] May 12 22:06:20 asinusaureus sm-mta[987]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocke t: daemon Daemon0: cannot bind: Can't assign requested address May 12 22:06:20 asinusaureus sm-mta[987]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket [...lots of this, and finally...] May 12 22:07:10 asinusaureus sm-mta[987]: daemon Daemon0: problem creating SMTP socket May 12 22:07:10 asinusaureus sm-mta[987]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocke t: daemon Daemon0: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting Relevant custom config: /etc/rc.conf: ------------------------------------------------------- [...] # net hostname="asinusaureus" ifconfig_bge0=dhcp [...] ------------------------------------------------------- /etc/hosts: ------------------------------------------------------- [...comments...] ::1 asinusaureus localhost 127.0.0.1 asinusaureus localhost [...comments...] ------------------------------------------------------- Neither named, pf, nor nis are enabled. Sendmail is started as per defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf What am I missing? And BTW, would it make any sense to qualify this hostname? Ernest --------------------------------------------------------------- plain text emails preferred, cf http://expita.com/nomime.html