I am having some prblems with sendmail since the second time i booted linux.
I have linux for about 2 months now and i just now understood that my send
mail deamon takes too long to start.
this is the log message that appeard when i upgraded linux red hat 7.1 to 7.2
for the first time:
( firstboot after installing )
Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1031]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt
by root
Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1031]: /etc/aliases: 42 aliases, longest
10 bytes, 432 bytes total
Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1043]: starting daemon (8.11.6):
SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Nov 18 09:53:11 localhost sendmail[1675]: fAI9rAX01675: from=root, size=186,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[email protected]>,
relay=root@localhost
Nov 18 09:53:11 localhost sendmail[1679]: fAI9rAX01675: to=root, ctladdr=root
(0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30186, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent
Nov 18 10:06:18 localhost sendmail[22560]: fAIA6H722560: from=root, size=241,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[email protected]>,
relay=root@localhost
Nov 18 10:06:18 localhost sendmail[22560]: fAIA6H722560: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=loc
no problems this time, send mail started smoothly and quickly!!!!!!!!
Well, the first thing i did when i loged in was to configure my hostname and
network devices.
So i changed my hostname to: AstinusGod, i added this host and it's network
ip to the hostname table and so on!!!
since then look:
send mail takes ages to start and it keeps these kinda error messages in the
log files:
Dec 2 00:56:04 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: My unqualified host name
(AstinusGod) unknown; sleeping for retry
Dec 2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (AstinusGod) -- using short name
Dec 2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: fB20vCX09808: from=root, size=230,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200112020057.fB20vCX09808@AstinusGod>,
relay=root@localhost
Dec 2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: fB20vCX09808: to=root,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30230,
dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
I don't know what to do.... to solve this problem....
i figure that if i change my hostname to localhost again, and if i remove the
ip entries i entered... it may be solved.. but i don't want that, just want
sendmail to recognize them!!!!!
plz somebody help!!
regards, Astinus
On Saturday 01 December 2001 20:29, Miguel Maria Godinho de Matos wrote:
> I am having some prblems with sendmail since the second time i booted
> linux.
>
> I have linux for about 2 months now and i just now understood that my send
> mail deamon takes too long to start.
>
> this is the log message that appeard when i upgraded linux red hat 7.1 to
> 7.2 for the first time:
Beware of scripts that claim to fix the /etc/hosts file. (Mandrake 8.1 cups
script[confirmed], among other possibilites. one ugly sol'n is to make
/etc/hosts immutable [chattr +i /etc/hosts]. Risky, and needs to be root to
do it. But immutable stops even root from modifying the file. Of course, do
this after fixing it. Also, try fixing it so it is a real domain name. like
astinusgod.pt [or whatever u hope to have as your domain name someday])
I used to have this problem too w/ Mandrake.
HTH
--
tabris
A man alone is easy prey
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