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Date:      Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:40:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=E1nielisz_L=E1szl=F3?= <laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: My unqualified host name
Message-ID:  <89949.36883.qm@web30801.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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True, the system boots without any problem but its annoying to wait for tha=
t failure. =0A=0A=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: "perryh@pluto.ra=
in.com" <perryh@pluto.rain.com>=0ATo: laszlo_danielisz@yahoo.com; cswiger@m=
ac.com=0ACc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Wednesday, September 24,=
 2008 7:05:16 AM=0ASubject: Re: My unqualified host name=0A=0A> > "nyana sm=
-mta[803]: My unqualified host name (nyana) unknown;  =0A> > sleeping for r=
etry"=0A>=0A> ... sendmail expects your machine to have working DNS and for=
=0A> the machine to have a valid FQDN.  Either set that up, or add  =0A> se=
ndmail_enable=3D"NONE" to /etc/rc.conf to disable sendmail ...=0A=0AThere i=
s another approach, which is to ignore the message.  After=0Asomething like=
 3 repetitions, at something like a minute apart,=0Ait will give up on qual=
ifying its name.  Everything seems to work=0Ajust fine thereafter until the=
 next boot, when the entire sequence=0Arepeats.=0A=0AThis leads to the ques=
tion of how to get sendmail -- or whatever=0A-- into the state where it wil=
l eventually land after the 3-miunte=0Adelay, without the delay and the mes=
sages.  It seems as if this=0Aought not be all that difficult.=0A__________=
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