Sendmail broken (Debian 1.3)

["D. W. Wieboldt" <dwiebold@cactus.org>]

I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom.  Lots of things are running
just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work.   I want sendmail on this one
so I can build a beeper gateway :-)  Does anybody have any clues about what
I should be looking for?

Upon startup, sendmail hangs for a couple of minutes before the sequence
finishes:

Starting mouse interface server: gpm  -m /dev/psaux -t ps2.
Starting printer daemon
starting /usr/sbin/sendmail ...
Starting remote filesystem services:.
Starting additional networking services:.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.


Dpkg --list gives this msg:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  sendmail        8.8.5-1        A complex mail transport agent.
  
Running sendmail -bi gets this (again after a couple of minutes):
shiloh_a# sendmail -bi
WARNING: local host name (shiloh_a) is not qualified; fix $j in config file

TIA!  davew

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