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Sendmail Domain Name Error

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rayen99

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Sep 7, 2002
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Okay this has been driving me absolutely insane... I recently installed OBSD v3.1 on a pc that's acting as a firewall & router for my local network. Since I've put the machine online I've been recieving these 2 errors -
1. ..."sm-msp-queue['number']: My unqualified host name ('my hostname') unknown; sleeping for retry"

2. ..."sm-msp-queue['number']: unable to qualify my own domain name ('my hostname') -- using short name"

Where 'number' is some sort of reference number or something I'm not sure. an example number is "3340". And 'my hostname' equals the machine's hostname which in this case is "openwall"

First thing I did after recieving the error was change malier.conf to mailer.conf.off to deactivate sendmail on startup, since I don't need sendmail to run anyway. The error continued to show up... I checked my processes and no traces of sendmail or sendmail related deamons were running... To just be on the safe side I deactivated inetd, and right now only sshd is runnning, syslogd, pflogd and the kernel processes. Still it pops up... After now being throughly annoyed I went into the /etc/mail dir and edited the .cf files ("localhost.cf","sendmail.cf","submit.cf") changing the commented example "my official domain name" line ("Dj$w.Foo.COM") to my domain name which is "adelphia.net". I rebooted and still I'm recieving the error. I then edited "resolv.conf" and added the line "domain adelphia.net" and still no luck. What the hell is going on here? I can't find any useful information about this on the net. All I want is a solution to stop this message from popping up. Maybe even a cheesy fix like redirecting the sendmail error output to a log file only or "dev/null". Whatever just something! Any help would be greatly appreaciated. Ohh one other quick thing, does anybody know of a graphical non X web browser?



----Chris
 
I have found this to be useful. Add the following to /etc/rc.conf

sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

The last line I had to add after upgrading FreeBSD to v4.7. Good Luck!
 
Hi,

thread60-270434 gives a solution for Solaris - I think it works with other flavours too. Good luck.
 
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