Sendmail Error

[Colin_4]

I try to set relay for sendmail on hp B.11.00. But after I changed the sendmail.cf and hosts files and restart the sendmail by running /sbin/init.d/sendmail start, it gives me this error message:

#Mar 2 17:48:07 host1 sendmail[17962]: unable to qualify my own domain name (host1) -- using short name
Mar 2 17:48:07 host1 sendmail[17969]: unable to qualify my own domain name (host1) -- using short name

I didn't set dns or nis in my nsswitch.conf. All are to read /etc/hosts.

Also, this error message will show up on all the terminals telnetting to this machine. Can I redirect this error message to somewhere else when I am doing this kind of tuning stuff?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion.

Colin

[Bill Hassell]

Ther is a new file needed for sendmail: /etc/mail/sendmail.cw which needs a list of all the names by which this host will be known. Typically this will be something like:

bambam
bambam.atl
bambam.atl.hp.com

If the machine was known by another name in the past, you can add those. Be sure to restart sendmail once this file is created.

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

In /etc/hosts add an alias hostname.my_domaine.com.

[Shannon Petry]

You can also manually set $j in the sendmail.cf file. It is one of the first configuration lines. There is a nice example right above it which explains what the "j" macro does, and how to make sendmail not complain about domain names.

Regards,
Shannon

[Mark Mitchell]

I set the domain name for the server by adding a .hostname in the /etc/hosts file.

198.20.1.43 hostname .hostname

Also if there is a domain server you might need to create a file in etc called resolv.conf with an entry like this
domain name.com
nameserver 198.20.1.50