sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

[Rob]

Hi,

OK, I think that I now have my hostname set properly in rc.conf and /etc/hosts

In rc.conf is the line hostname="xenon"

In /etc/hosts there is one line:  127.0.0.1  localhost  xenon

Upon bootup I get the following error:

"xenon sm-mta [1556]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown;
sleeping for retry"

Then after it sleeps a bit I get more errors.  Finally, I just hig <ctrl-c> to kill it
and the boot process continues.

I looked in the handbook in the Sendmail section and it referred to a file in /etc/mail
called "local-host-names" and I put that file in with the line: "xenon" in there, but with 
the same results, so I am really not certain exactly what to do now.

I put the Sendmail config part of rc.conf below.  I just want localhost based Sendmail.

Thanks,

Rob.


part of rc.conf:

##############################################################
###  Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) options  ######################
##############################################################

mta_start_script="/etc/rc.sendmail"
			# Script to start your chosen MTA, called by /etc/rc.
# Settings for /etc/rc.sendmail and /etc/rc.d/sendmail:
sendmail_enable="NO"	# Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO).
sendmail_pidfile="/var/run/sendmail.pid"	# sendmail pid file
sendmail_procname="/usr/sbin/sendmail"		# sendmail process name
sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (as a server)
sendmail_submit_enable="YES"	# Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission
sendmail_submit_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost"
				# Flags for localhost-only MTA
sendmail_outbound_enable="YES"	# Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO).
sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (outbound only)
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES"	# Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO).
sendmail_msp_queue_flags="-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m"
				# Flags for sendmail_msp_queue daemon.
				

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