From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 17:42: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7B737B42C for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:42:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e7L0fuj24799; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:41:56 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008210041.e7L0fuj24799@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: rshea@opendoor.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages In-Reply-To: <200008202350.e7KNoMQ29376@deborah.paradise.net.nz> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:41:56 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:50:20 +1200 rshea@opendoor.co.nz wrote: +------------------ | As you can guess my host name is sheahp. I assume the problem | with sendmail is related to my not having a domain name. The lack | of a domain name creates a number of boring problems including a | "sleeping for retry" whenever I reboot. I have had some suggestions | of how to get around it but I'm up to my ears in Samba at the | moment. As to the natd I had been assuming that whatever | sendmail was trying to do was upsetting the firewall (indirectly) and | hence the message. However any other ideas/fixes are welcome. +------------------ I'd recomend turning off sendmail and natd till you are ready to tackle the problems that you are having. Put the follwing two lines in /etc/rc.conf.local: natd_enable="NO" sendmail_enable="NO" chris -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message