Sendmail and domain name
I am working on getting everything configured after having to rebuild
my debian partition over the weekend. I am sure there are a few more
things to work on, but the one that keeps hounding me is a persistent
error message I receive from sendmail.
In booting the init script gets to starting sendmail and then hangs
there for a couple minutes (haven't timed, but I know I can go away
for a little while and still see it hanging in mid-boot).
I hear my diald kick in and dial-wait-logoff twice before things
finally get going again.
Then when I look at the mail.err log this is what I see:
Sep 8 14:55:07 gently sendmail[897]: My unqualified host name (gently) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep 8 14:56:07 gently sendmail[897]: unable to qualify my own domain name (gently) -- using short name
The error message is repeated about every half hour (when I have a
fetchmail routine set up.)
If this goes out, I know that it set up to work, but the hanging and
the error messages are a sign that something isn't right.
I can't find this addressed in any of the sendmail documents on the
www.sendmail.org site so am unsure if it is really a sendmail problem
or a problem with misconfiguring my debian box.
Can anyone help?
David
bweaver@netins.net
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