Joel> sendmail... unable to
Joel> qualify my own domain name (scpasub) -- using short name
Joel> The SMF sendmail is disable... because I don't want use the sendmail.
Joel> Why is generated the sendmail message????, if the service / process
Joel> is disabled.
Because the SMF service disables the sendmail daemon which is used not just
for in-bound mail (what most people think of the sendmail service as being
for), but also for out-bound mail. So if for example you have a cron job
that tries to send mail, it will try to use sendmail to do so, and if
sendmail cannot determine its fully qualified host name, then the above
message will result.
If you are interested in fixing the FQHN issue, run check-hostname and do
what it says. For more on the in-bound / out-bound split, see:
http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck/entry/sendmail_s_new_paradigm
which also includes a link that explains how to work around this.
-- John
http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck
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