I am working on getting everything configured after having to rebuild my debian partition over the weekend. I am sure there are a few more things to work on, but the one that keeps hounding me is a persistent error message I receive from sendmail.
In booting the init script gets to starting sendmail and then hangs there for a couple minutes (haven't timed, but I know I can go away for a little while and still see it hanging in mid-boot). I hear my diald kick in and dial-wait-logoff twice before things finally get going again. Then when I look at the mail.err log this is what I see: Sep 8 14:55:07 gently sendmail[897]: My unqualified host name (gently) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 8 14:56:07 gently sendmail[897]: unable to qualify my own domain name (gently) -- using short name The error message is repeated about every half hour (when I have a fetchmail routine set up.) If this goes out, I know that it set up to work, but the hanging and the error messages are a sign that something isn't right. I can't find this addressed in any of the sendmail documents on the www.sendmail.org site so am unsure if it is really a sendmail problem or a problem with misconfiguring my debian box. Can anyone help? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .