Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:59:48 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Dixit, Viraj" <Viraj.Dixit@CityofPaloAlto.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host Name Lookup Error Message-ID: <4642ace216ab7301ec6e8864d53ab252@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <ED759F1DC5ADD74592DD063B1EDEDAF803ACD29D@cc-mail.staff.copa> References: <ED759F1DC5ADD74592DD063B1EDEDAF803ACD29D@cc-mail.staff.copa>
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On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Dixit, Viraj wrote: > 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". Configure /etc/resolv.conf with working nameservers, and then flush the queue of stuck mail. > 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. I would try restarting syslogd using the -d flag and use "logger -p kern.warn" to test it. Perhaps your /etc/syslog.conf file is not formatted correctly. Oh, you might need to touch any new logfiles you want to log to, if they do not already exist. -- -Chuck
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