errors of sendmail stop/start

[Victor_5]

1. I try to stop sendmail
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
stop... user unknown

2. I used kisssm to stop to sendmail, then restart it,
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[86]:nf:;not found
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[86]:f:not found
WARNING: local host name is not qualified;fix $j in config file /etc/mail/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 76 bytes total
sendmail

What are those error messages mean? How to slove them? Thanks.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Victor,

For the syntax errors, I advise you copy /sbin/init.d/sendmail script from some other server. Or look at line 86 to see what's in there.

For the 'hostname not qualified' means your host is not properly getting resolved through DNS. If you are not using DNS, then you can make it qualified by adding a dot "." after the host entry in /etc/hosts file. like

xx.xx.xx.xx yourserver yourserver.

-Sri

[S.K. Chan]

Check /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and look for the line that has "Dj$", it should look like this ..

Dj$w.

ie with a "." at the end so that sendmail is able to interpret the short hostname as the fully qualified domain name.

[Helen French]

Hi Victor:

Check this document too(TKB #2200202203):

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=b44545bd08fc1a4aeb/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000058096731

HTH,
Shiju