On 28/06/2010 22:43, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:46 +0100, Michael<mlmichae...@gmail.com> wrote:
My console is being flooded with this kind of messages:
Jun 28 15:49:02 prime sendmail[57268]: My unqualified host name
(localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jun 28 15:49:06 prime sendmail[21451]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (localhost) -- using short name
It seems that it's your *sendmail* that is complaining. Check your
settings regarding hostname (hostname= in /etc/rc.conf, corresponding
entry in /etc/hosts), also check sendmail configuration in /etc/mail.
Yes but I don't quite understand why. It's my laptop system and I don't
really need or want sendmail there. I guess it must be some script
trying to send email instead of logging to a file.
But how can I find out exactly what is trying to use sendmail (which
fails and complaints)?
My configuration (8.0-RELEASE-p3):
/etc/rc.conf
hostname="prime"
sendmail_enable="NONE"
/etc/hosts
::1 localhost prime
127.0.0.1 localhost prime
/etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns
/etc/periodic.conf
daily_output="/var/log/dper.log"
daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_backup_aliases_enable="NO"
daily_status_mailq_enable="NO"
daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_queuerun_enable="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"
daily_status_security_output="/var/log/dsec.log"
weekly_output="/var/log/wper.log"
monthly_output="/var/log/mper.log"
It was all fine and quiet for months and started just recently. The only
change in the system I can think of is that I replaced pf with ipfw.
Still don't understand what is so urgent that sendmail keeps trying
every minute.
M.
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