topic Re: error message appear on screen in Operating System - HP-UX

error message appear on screen

montecrito777 — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:42:50 GMT

My system giving non stop error message appear on screen as - unable to qualify my own domain name -using short name. Pls provide what will be the solution as i'm very new baby in HP-UX

Re: error message appear on screen

Reshma Malusare — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:55:18 GMT

Can you please copy the error here...

Re: error message appear on screen

montecrito777 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:19:33 GMT

This is the error message :-

My server name-Unable to qualify my own domain name - My server name -- using shortname

thanks

Re: error message appear on screen

Peter Godron — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:17:07 GMT

Hi,
and welcome to the forums !

Please make sure you have defined your server name in /etc/hosts.

If you are using full hostnames, define both -
For example:
110.112.134.15 hp hp.com

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

Re: error message appear on screen

Matti_Kurkela — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:37:39 GMT

Those messages might be generated by sendmail, because it needs to know the fully-qualified hostname in order to provide outgoing emails with correct headers (among other things).

Check /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts. Usually the root cause of name resolution problems is within these files.