Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:54:16 -0600 From: Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: "Dixit, Viraj" <Viraj.Dixit@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host Name Lookup Error Message-ID: <b98916aebbaa7ebdf975759eaa2b518a@secure-computing.net> In-Reply-To: <ED759F1DC5ADD74592DD063B1EDEDAF803ACD29D@cc-mail.staff.copa> References: <ED759F1DC5ADD74592DD063B1EDEDAF803ACD29D@cc-mail.staff.copa>
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--Apple-Mail-1-138637943 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Feb 1, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > Folks, > > Just installed FreeBSD 5.3, all seems to be working except the error > from sendmail. I can ping the mail server in the domain that I am > trying to send the mail. But the mail gets send to my " > /var/spool/mqueue" directory. The error is "host name lookup failure". > I want to put this system on line as production system soon. On last > thing "syslogd" does not put out any logs under "var/logs". Any ideas, > I have been looking in FreeBSD archives. > > VJ > Viraj Dixit > 650-329-2118 IIRC, sendmail requires that the system `hostname' be a FQDN. Also, logs are kept under /var/log and not, /var/logs. HTH _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-1-138637943 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkH/+okACgkQRAAY9knOW+rz4wCfd+JjSn4FTXxY5kxy7HSGEUK4 CXwAn2mgvzQn3X+XUBAEnhNvNcC+zjbd =HNyR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-138637943--
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