On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se> wrote:
>>
> I looked at the /var/log/maillog and found a problem with the domain name,
> see excerpt below. I'm not quite sure where it picked up
> localhost.localdomain from and where to change it to the proper name. Does it
> look in /etc/hosts or /etc/BackupPC/config.pl?
The actual hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network.
>And FWIW, I can't find an /etc/sendmail.cf for some reason. Has this been
>removed and set somewhere else maybe?
RHEL/Centos put this under /etc/mail - and normally you would edit the
much simpler sendmail.mc file, setting MASQUERADE_AS if you want it to
pretend to be some other host.
> Further, I discovered a problem with the installdir-variable on this
> particular machine. It was set to /usr. Checking the working email BPC-server
> I discovered that it should be /usr/share/BackupPC and changed it accordingly
> and then restarted the BPC daemon. In fact, this errant variable might be why
> restores have failed as it can't find the right scripts to run.
Is this from the EPEL rpm version?
> 1. Removed any reference to localhost.domain and/or localhost in my
> /etc/hosts file.
That seems likely to break things.
> 2. Added "ALL: 127.0.0.1" in /etc/hosts.allow.
> 3. And for good measure (not necessarily required) added "sendmail:
> localhost" in /etc/hosts.allow.
That, or an equivalent, should have been there by default.
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