sendmail and hostname

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:29:36PM +0200, Firas Kraiem wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I get this message when booting my FBSD home webserver :
> 
>      Apr  3 22:23:55 alice sm-mta[509]: My unqualified host name (alice)
>      unknown; sleeping for retry
> 
> From what I've understood after a bit of searching, the answer lies probably 
> in the /etc/hosts file. So here goes :
> 
>      127.0.0.1               localhost alice
>      192.168.1.2             alice

The hostname "alice" should have a domain part. And it should match the
hostname that is set in /etc/rc.conf. E.g, if /etc/rc.conf says

hostname="alice.home.net"

then /etc hosts should have

::1  	  	localhost localhost.home.net
127.0.0.1	localhost localhost.home.net
192.168.1.2	alice alice.home.net


HTH, Roland
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