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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:02:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        lancez@accessld.com (Lance)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help with sendmail messages
Message-ID:  <199701190002.QAA06472@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19970117103338.5e9f201c@accessld.com> from "Lance" at Jan 17, 97 10:28:08 am

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Lance wrote:
> 
> Hi, there:
> 
> My PC is running FreeBSD 2.1.5 (WC CDROM). Every a few hours
> (or days) my console displays messages similar to below:
> 
> ...
> Jan 17 02:02:03 myname sendmail[1605]: My unqualified host name (bsdsys) unknown
> ; sleeping for retry
> Jan 17 02:02:03 myname sendmail[1605]: unable to qualify my own domain name (bsd
> sys) -- using short name
> ...
> 
> Is this a kind of sendmail configuration problem? What can I
> do about this?

	fix you dns.  your computer does not know its own name.
	witness the syslog line "Jan 17 02:02:03 myname".
	"myname" should have been replaced by the host name.
	2.1.5...hmm...examine /etc/sysconfig, set the hostname
	there "hostname=myname" should be changed to the real
	name of the machine.
jmb



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