Host Name Lookup Error

[Eric F Crist]

On Feb 1, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Dixit, Viraj wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Just installed FreeBSD 5.3, all seems to be working except the error 
> from sendmail. I can ping the mail server in the domain that I am 
> trying to send the mail. But the mail gets send to my "        
> /var/spool/mqueue" directory. The error is "host name lookup failure". 
> I want to put this system on line as production system soon. On last 
> thing "syslogd" does not put out any logs under "var/logs". Any ideas, 
> I have been looking in FreeBSD archives.
>
> VJ
> Viraj Dixit
> 650-329-2118

IIRC, sendmail requires that the system `hostname' be a FQDN.  Also, 
logs are kept under /var/log and not, /var/logs.

HTH
_______________________________________________________
Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: PGP.sig
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20050201/b7b210d5/PGP.bin