From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 13 00:59:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D653637B401 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kaur.zehym.com (kaur.zehym.com [203.89.243.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70C443FBD for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from travis@fitch.id.au) Received: from fitch.id.au ([203.214.64.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by kaur.zehym.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7D7v5E9018995; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:57:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from travis@fitch.id.au) Message-ID: <3F39EFE2.10801@fitch.id.au> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:59:30 +1000 From: Travis Fitch User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Woodson References: <1060683011.3f38bd03e1d79@my.uq.edu.au> <200308120852.19756.mwoodson@sricrm.com> In-Reply-To: <200308120852.19756.mwoodson@sricrm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: s4021760@student.uq.edu.au cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with /etc/hosts on FreeBSD 5.1??? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:59:36 -0000 Just put the FQDN in /etc/hosts # /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 box1.mydomain.com box Travis Mark Woodson wrote: > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 03:10 am, s4021760@student.uq.edu.au wrote: > >>Hi, >> I just loaded freeBSD 5.1 and ran into some trouble....I have edited >>the /etc/hosts file to show the required name....but when I boot up the >>system hangs and gives the message "...My unspecified name is >>BLAA......Sleeping for retry" It comes out of this loop if I hit ^C. I have > > > That's sendmail saying it can't figure out the host name. Unless the machine > is handling mail, it's not really a big deal. It's not really hanging, > you're just not being patient enough in letting it timeout. > > Configure sendmail properly or disable it entirely to fix the problem. The > problem isn't really /etc/hosts. > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"