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1. Local mail problems (bad hostname setup?)

Hi,    

I've just installed Linux on my machine, currently it is a standalone but
will be used with PPP to connect to the Internet later.  I wanted to make
sure I could get everything to work locally (and get a better understanding
of how things work).                      

I have a problem with mail (sendmail) and it seems to be related to the
hostname setup.  Although it's a standalone, I should be able to send
mail to other accounts on the same system, but this doesn't work.

I changed /etc/HOSTNAME as outlined in the installation HOWTO.

Upon booting up, I get the message, "My hostname (predator) does not
seem to exist!  Connection refused!"

If you try to run a mailer and send a message to another account on the
system, you get the same error message.

/var/adm/syslogd has the following line associated with the error:

predator sendmail[51]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): My hostname does not seem
to exist!  Connection refused!

However, I can send email using the "deliver" program if I force the
hostname with the -h option, but this is all I can do.    

It seems to me that this email problem is related to an improper setup
of the hostname or some other config file.  What am I doing
wrong here?  Any help would be greatly appreciated!

/Kevin

P.S.  Yes, I also read the email howto and tried a few things as
outlined there, none had any effect.

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