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My unqualified host name ERROR SENDMAIL

My unqualified host name ERROR SENDMAIL

Post by maur » Thu, 21 Sep 2000 04:00:00



Solaris Operating system 7

Host name   sunclassic
NIS Domainname   caloro.ch

I have installed Ver 8.11.0 of Sendmail

When I try sending mail via sendmail or mail, it takes a long time to send
(over a min)

I think that I have to make chanches in the sendmail.cf file but I don`t
know where
where do I get the code of sendmail.cf to understand what is writen in this
file

# newaliases
Sep 19 08:56:59 sunclassic sendmail[414]: My unqualified host name
(sunclassic) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
/etc/mail/aliases: 3 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 46 bytes total

# newaliases
Sep 20 18:54:54 sunclassic sendmail[430]: My unqualified host name
(sunclassic) unknown; sleeping for retry
Warning: Option: LDAPDefaultSpec requires LDAP support (-DLDAPMAP)
Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (sunclassic) -- using short name
/etc/mail/aliases: line 35: missing colon
Sep 20 18:59:14 sunclassic sendmail[430]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/aliases: line 35: missing colon
/etc/mail/aliases: 3 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 52 bytes total

Thanks

maurizio


 
 
 
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My unqualified host name ERROR SENDMAIL

Post by Shane Janse » Fri, 22 Sep 2000 04:00:00


Try adding:

ip    hostname    hostname.domain    mailhost

to your /etc/hosts.

Shane.


> Solaris Operating system 7

> Host name   sunclassic
> NIS Domainname   caloro.ch

> I have installed Ver 8.11.0 of Sendmail

> When I try sending mail via sendmail or mail, it takes a long time to send
> (over a min)

> I think that I have to make chanches in the sendmail.cf file but I don`t
> know where
> where do I get the code of sendmail.cf to understand what is writen in this
> file

> # newaliases
> Sep 19 08:56:59 sunclassic sendmail[414]: My unqualified host name
> (sunclassic) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> Sep 19 08:59:39 sunclassic sendmail[414]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> /etc/mail/aliases: 3 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 46 bytes total

> # newaliases
> Sep 20 18:54:54 sunclassic sendmail[430]: My unqualified host name
> (sunclassic) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Warning: Option: LDAPDefaultSpec requires LDAP support (-DLDAPMAP)
> Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> Sep 20 18:57:34 sunclassic sendmail[430]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (sunclassic) -- using short name
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 35: missing colon
> Sep 20 18:59:14 sunclassic sendmail[430]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> /etc/mail/aliases: line 35: missing colon
> /etc/mail/aliases: 3 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 52 bytes total

> Thanks

> maurizio




 
 
 
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1. unqualified host name upsets sendmail

I have some desktop systems that don't belong to a domain. When installing
FreeBSD, I wasn't sure what to do in the network configuration dialog. The
examples in the books I have are like this:
  Host:                   Domain:
  foo.bar.com             bar.com
I was just using a fake domain of "local":
  Host:                   Domain:
  foo.local               local
Then I came across a discussion of this in Greg Lehey's The Complete
FreeBSD. On p. 99, he says to leave them blank if you don't have a domain.
So that's what I did on my latest install:
  Host:                   Domain:
  lassie
The problem is, I now get messages from sendmail like this when I boot:

May 24 04:17:05 lassie sendmail[46419]: My unqualified host name (lassie)
unknown; sleeping for retry
May 24 04:18:05 lassie sendmail[46419]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(lassie) -- using short name

I don't actually need sendmail on this machine -- I just ssh to a server
where I have my mail. So I changed my /etc/rc.conf:

sendmail_enable="NO"

However, this doesn't seem to have any effect. Sendmail still complains at
boot time, the sendmail daemon still runs, and I get hourly console
messages. Does setting this to "NO" mean that sendmail just won't accept
connections, even though it still runs?

So what should I do here? In general, is a Unix system supposed to have a
magic "local" or "localdomain" that is always understood to refer back to
itself, or is that just a convention? Should I disable sendmail by more
extreme methods, like deleting the binary? (It's part of the base system.)
It's not a big deal, but I often shut this system down at night, and the
sendmail thing adds a lot of extra time to booting up in the morning (a
couple of minutes or so).

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