From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 20:01:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA24658 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24648 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:01:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from (uk.radan.com) [158.152.75.22] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yzY6Z-0005Rb-00; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 03:01:11 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id EAA00592 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:00:48 +0100 Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15004; Fri, 24 Jul 98 04:00:47 BST Message-Id: <35B806D4.4C712A37@uk.radan.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:00:20 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help with a sendmail error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I keep getting the following errors from sendmail (the messages sent by the system). I think (know) I've messed up something in the /etc/rc* files when I (temporarily) changed the hostname, IP address, and domain to use my machine on the network at work and then changed it back for dial-up use. What have I cocked-up??. The machines hostname is marder-1 Jul 24 02:00:01 marder-1 sendmail[220]: My unqualified host name (marder-1) unknown; sleeping for retry Jul 24 02:00:01 marder-1 sendmail[242]: My unqualified host name (marder-1) unknown; sleeping for retry Jul 24 02:01:01 marder-1 sendmail[220]: unable to qualify my own domain name (marder-1) -- using short name Jul 24 02:01:01 marder-1 sendmail[242]: unable to qualify my own domain name (marder-1) -- using short name Jul 24 02:01:01 marder-1 sendmail[254]: My unqualified host name (marder-1) unknown; sleeping for retry Jul 24 02:02:01 marder-1 sendmail[254]: unable to qualify my own domain name (marder-1) -- using short name Jul 24 02:02:01 marder-1 sendmail[254]: unable to qualify my own domain name (marder-1) -- using short name -- Mark Ovens *====================================* CNC Apps Engineer | One of the main causes of the fall | Radan Computational Ltd | of the Roman Empire was, that | (CAD/CAM solutions for the | lacking a zero, they had no way of | Sheetmetal industry.) | indicating the successful | mailto:marko@uk.radan.com | termination of their C programs | http://www.uk.radan.com *====================================* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message