From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 7:18:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433F937B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:18:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from catflap.home.slightlystrange.org (host217-39-46-78.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.39.46.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7D0E43E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danielby@home.slightlystrange.org) Received: from danielby by catflap.home.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17RvpA-0000SI-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 15:18:40 +0100 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:18:40 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sleeping :-( Message-ID: <20020709141840.GA1552@catflap.home.slightlystrange.or> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020709093100.12622.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709093100.12622.qmail@web14602.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:31:00AM +0100, shubha mr wrote: > when I reboot my machine,it says after a while > > sendmail...unidentified my hostname(BSD)..sleeping for > retry.. > > and sleeps.I always do a ctrl + c to get out. > How do I get rid of this ugly error? Do you have valid DNS configured for your machine? In my experience, this is what sendmail is complaining about. There may be a mismatch between the hostname you have supplied, and the hostname assigned by your ISP (I'm guessing here, that you are talking about a box on a cable modem or some such?), or the hostname you have supplied is not in the DNS at all. Just a thought... Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message