Running sendmail w/o FQDN

[Doug Hawkins]

I am also having problems with sendmail configuration on my machine.  I 
suppose it's all related to the fact that I don't have a fully qualified 
domain name (FQDN), but I have not been able to find a simple method to 
allow sendmail to operate as the "local message manager" without having 
a FQDN -- and not complain about it.  I've skimmed the 180k 
'/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README' and 'man sendmail' and a few .cf files.

There must be a simple way to have a "development' machine that's on a 
private LAN which has internet access and DNS via a router, but is not 
allocated an FQDN.  When I wasn't running 'inetd' everything was fine, 
but I'd like those services (ftp, Samba's swat, etc.) to be available to 
the other LAN machines.

I also get the 'sendmail sleeping' message when the machine is booting 
because it can't find its FQDN.

Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Doug
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I get this in my message log every 10 minutes:

{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: netbios-ns/udp: bind: Address already in use
{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
{Date} {hostname} inetd[PID]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use
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"Networking and Services" part of my /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"   # Handled by my ADSL router/modem
hostname="beastie"
sendmail_enable="NO"
inetd_enable="YES"
nfs_client_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_flags="-b tk1.ihug.co.nz"
router_enable="NO"
rpc_lockd_enable="YES"
rpc_statd_enable="YES"
rpcbind_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"
dictd_enable="YES"
mysql_enable="YES"
mysql_dbdir="/bsd5/var/db/mysql"
samba_enable="YES"
apache_enable="YES"
gdm_enable="YES"