Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:51:07 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, srobrien@mss.mmr.lucent.com Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <199805191451.HAA04093@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>From: srobrien@mss.mmr.lucent.com (Susan O'Brien) >Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 16:36:04 -0400 >I am a new user to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. Although I'm not real >familiar with sendmail. Fair enough; everyone starts somewhere.... :-) >According to all the documentation I've been gathering, I should be able >to use the default setup for sendmail, set up my IP addresses and host >names and it should work. >It isn't. Here's the messages I'm receiving: >May 18 14:14:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: My unqualified host name >(canetsoft) unknown; sleeping for retry >May 18 14:15:26 canetsoft sendmail[5298]: unable to qualify my own >domain name (canetsoft) -- using short name OK. This sounds as if nameservice (DNS) isn't set up properly. Generally, it's been my experience that trying to get sendmail working has DNS setup as a prerequisite. >I think I'm really confused as to what files I need to modify so that >sendmail knows my host and domain name. One of the key files, on the machine that is running sendmail, is the /etc/resolv.conf file. You need to point to (at least) one valid nameserver there. If your network doesn't have a valid nameserver handy, you should probably create one (even if it's a caching-only nameserver). (If you're not using TCP/IP -- e.g., a UUCP-only use of sendmail -- then the situation is a bit different, but even I stopped doing that about 4 or 5 years ago.) I think that should go a long way toward resolving what you see. >The other things I'd like to find out about are faxing, pagers, and >sound alerts. What software packages would you recommend using? I will >need to be able to send a fax to some phone number, page someone, or >send an audible alarm from the FreeBSD machine. For FAXing, HylaFAX (formerly known as "FlexFAX"), by Sam Leffler; there's "port" (in /usr/ports/comms/hylafax). I used FlexFAX on a BSDI (now BSD/OS) system about 4 years ago; it worked well. Dunno about the others. david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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