Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:50:20 +1200 From: rshea@opendoor.co.nz To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suppressing SENDMAIL messages Message-ID: <200008202350.e7KNoMQ29376@deborah.paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000818090742.00abfc80@mail.udel.edu> References: <200008180547.e7I5lqK11208@deborah.paradise.net.nz>
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> > > > > Hi - I'm getting a lot of error messages from SENDMAIL appearing > > > > on my screen whilst I'm, for instance, in a text editor. > > > > > > Don't login as root, or, switch to another virtual-console (ALT-F2). > > > > >Thanks for the suggestion. I should have said the error messages > >are appearing from two sources SENDMAIL and NATD. > > > >The error messages appear simultaneously on all virtual-consoles > >which are logged on and that's when I'm logged on as root or as > >myself. > > > >Any hope of persuading SENDMAIL and NATD to not put the > >messages up at all ? > > What are the error messages? Perhaps it would just be easier to fix the > problems rather than try to avoid seeing them? =) Otherwise, you can avoid > NATD messages in the same way as the SENDMAIL messages... > OK well since I last wrote I have fixed the problem to some degree (I think) by including MAILTO="" in the crontab (didn't know you could do that, found it in an old Linux Journal article I was reading over the w/e) - I've only had one invocation but I received no mail and the SENDMAIL messages went away. For the record the error messages are as follows : Aug 21 09:01:01 sheahp sendmail[9113] unable to qualify my own host domain name (sheahp) -- using short name Aug 21 09:01:02 sheahp natd[148]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) As you can guess my host name is sheahp. I assume the problem with sendmail is related to my not having a domain name. The lack of a domain name creates a number of boring problems including a "sleeping for retry" whenever I reboot. I have had some suggestions of how to get around it but I'm up to my ears in Samba at the moment. As to the natd I had been assuming that whatever sendmail was trying to do was upsetting the firewall (indirectly) and hence the message. However any other ideas/fixes are welcome. thanks for your interest richard shea. ***************************************************** Open Door Ltd PO Box 119-46 Wellington PH 04 384 7639 FX 04 384 7672 ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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