minor sendmail issue ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I am getting sendmail notifications in my messages file as such:


Sep  9 03:01:00 kabini1 sendmail[44668]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:02:00 kabini1 sendmail[44668]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:02:24 kabini1 sendmail[44737]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:03:24 kabini1 sendmail[44737]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:03:24 kabini1 sendmail[44742]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:04:24 kabini1 sendmail[44742]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44912]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44953]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:05:42 kabini1 sendmail[44954]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:06:01 kabini1 sendmail[44971]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44912]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44953]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:06:42 kabini1 sendmail[44954]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 03:07:01 kabini1 sendmail[44971]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 04:30:00 kabini1 sendmail[45139]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 04:31:00 kabini1 sendmail[45139]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name
Sep  9 04:55:00 kabini1 sendmail[45217]: My unqualified host name 
(jaguar) unknown; sleeping for retry
Sep  9 04:56:00 kabini1 sendmail[45217]: unable to qualify my own domain 
name (jaguar) -- using short name


This is happening (I think) because I am on a LAN, w/ no domain name, no 
DNS servers running, just local machine names. I got/get the same thing 
under linux, although I get fewer of them because Linux combines all of 
its logwatch stuff into 1 grand message, so only 1 batch of these 
notifications. I am getting more under FBSD 9.3 because I get more 
logwatch/cron messages, each begetting a group of the above 
notifications. These are kinda swamping other stuff in the messages 
file, is there a way to suppress these notifications from sendmail ? TIA 
....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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