sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

[Stijn Hoop]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to the internal
> network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty creative,
> right).
> 
> However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine boots
> and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get a bunch of cryptic
> error messages. Here's a view of the syslog:
> 
> root at fileserver# tail /var/log/messages
> Nov 29 13:51:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name
> (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Nov 29 13:52:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (fileserver) -- using short name
> Nov 29 13:52:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: My unqualified host name
> (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Nov 29 13:53:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: unable to qualify my own
> domain name (fileserver) -- using short name
> ...
> Nov 29 13:56:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: My unqualified host name
> (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Nov 29 13:57:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (fileserver) -- using short name
> ...
> 
> Can anyone please help me?

It's missing it's domain name apparently (i.e. the things after
the first . in fileserver.my.domain.nl). Either make sure it's in the
DNS or list it in /etc/hosts.

--Stijn

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