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Date:      Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:03:01 -0500
From:      "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
To:        "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sendmail is sleepy
Message-ID:  <200309031003.01573.algould@datawok.com>
In-Reply-To: <003901c37228$42b6a430$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <003901c37228$42b6a430$04fea8c0@moe>

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Did you enter your hostname and ip address in /etc/resolv.conf?  I don't if it 
will fix your problem; but is helps when many applications complain about the 
hostname.

Andrew Gould

On Wednesday 03 September 2003 09:32 am, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> When I boot, I get what I assume are timeouts when loading sendmail.
>
> Sendmail_submit
> My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Unable to qualify my hostname, using short name
>
> Sendmail-clientmqueue
> My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Unable to qualify my hostname, using short name
>
> How can I make these go away?
> Here is my /etc/rc.conf
>
> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Tue Aug 12 07:29:34 2003
> # Created: Tue Aug 12 07:29:34 2003
> # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
> # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> defaultrouter="192.168.254.254"
> hostname="larry"
> ifconfig_tx0="inet 192.168.254.3  netmask 255.255.255.0"
> kern_securelevel_enable="NO"
> linux_enable="NO"
> moused_enable="NO"
> moused_type="NO"
> nfs_reserved_port_only="YES"
> saver="daemon"
> sendmail_enable="NO"
> sshd_enable="NO"
> usbd_enable="NO"
> ntpdate_enable="YES"
> ntpdate_flags="time.nist.gov"
> xntpd_enable="YES"
> syslogd_enable="YES"
> syslogd_flags="-ss"
> clear_tmp_enable="YES"
> inetd_flags="-wW -a 192.168.254.3"
>
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
>
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