crontab jobs

[ajk_2]

Dear all,

I created a crontab file. After I run it, it caused an error:

"# Apr 22 05:45:00 D270 sendmail[14129]: unable to qualify my own domain name (D2
70) -- using short name"

What is it? Did I do something wrong?
Thanks for your help!

Best Regards
ajk

[Acer_1]

Hi,sir:
it's nothing about your crontable.
just vi /etc/hosts and add an alias .(hostname)
for example
172.20.5.11 test .test

it will solve the problem

Hope it helps

[Ian Dennison_1]

Check sendmail.cf, there should be an entry with D$j and something else. Check what this is set to, and configure it to be the same as your Domain Name for Addressing.

Also check you have configured in the hosts or DNS File for the fully qualified name.

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[Steve Steel]

Hi


or add the name with full domain in the hosts file to each entry needed.

1.2.3.4 test test.donain.x.x


Steve Steel

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

This is a 'sendmail' configuration issue, not a 'cron' problem.

If you are using DNS, make sure '/etc/resolv.conf' exists, and includes the line:

domain

for example:
domain your.com

If you are not using DNS, make sure '/etc/hosts' first line reads:



Lastly, set up the Dj$w macro in '/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' and change:

#Dj$w.Foo.com
to read:
Dj$w.

Then add to '/etc/mail/sendmail.cw' and restart 'sendmail':

# /usr/sbin/sendmail stop
# /usr/sbin/sendmail start

Regards!

...JRF...

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi ajk,

The error message "unable to qualify my own domain name" is most case is comming from application which need your domain host name for a server like.

Example :
IF your server is "server1", your organisation is "org1" and your country iso code is "fr"
THEN
Your domain host name will be "server1.org1.fr"

and you must put this string as an alias to the TCPIP address of your server "server1" in your /etc/hosts file.


Magdi

[Magdi KAMAL]

Hi again,

example of your /etc/hosts file will be :


128.102.11.10 server1.org1.fr server1 #my server number one


Magdi

[Nagarathinam]

The message is nothing to do with cron jobs.
You have some problem with sendmail.
You can do
1) In /etc/hosts add an alias to Your server
2) # /sbin/initd/sendmail stop


Nagarathinam

[ajk_2]

Hi there,

I changed everything, but it is still happening the same. Please help. Thank you very much!

Best Regards
ajk

[Ruediger Noack]

Hi,

you need to know your domain name (nslookup D270).
Replace similar JRF's suggestion the dummy domain name Foo.COM with your domain name in sendmail.cf entry Dj$w.
The restart sendmail.

Hope this helps

Ruediger

[Deepak Extross]

Can you paste your cron job here? Did you try to run the job from the command line?

[Steve Post]

This is probably unrelated but.....
Unlike shell, batch, and at, your environment is not set in the cronjob.
As a result maybe there's a variable not set like PATH?
Isn't LOGNAME supposed to be set?
You can set the environment within your program by "sourcing" it in.

#!bin/ksh
. /myhome/.profile
< my script text goes here >

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Try to run the command in the crontab at the command prompt as the same user to see if you run into the same error. If not, then there is some difference in environment settings (run "env" to study the working environment and post its output if you need help spot the root cause.)

Hai

[benoit Bruckert]

THe trouble is that your cron job generate an output to stdout or stderr.
As it's run in background, then an email is sent to the crontab's owner.
and the mail command is using sendmail.cf to define headers of the mail.
2 ways to solve it :
1 - redirect output (stdout and stderr) of you cronjob to logfiles. Then you can check theses log files. sendmail is not used in this case.
2 - use the standard way (I.E. sendmail) then change Dj as described by others, and use the mail command (as crontab's owner) to see the outputs.

Once you will know what are theses outputs, you can redirect/manage them.

regards
Benoit

[ajk_2]

15 10 * * * ls /tmp >> /tmp/ls.log
07 17 * * * sh /home/isdlun/abc.sh

This is my cron jobs, very simple. I did change the Dj$w to D270, but nothing changed. Please help! Thanks!

Best Regards
ajk

[Deepak Extross]

now, what does
cat /home/isdlun/abc.sh
show?

[ajk_2]

In the file abc.sh:

echo testing!

[Deepak Extross]

Doesn't look like the error is related to your cron jobs.
When exactly do you get the error? Is it at 10:15 / 17:07 everyday? Any idea what triggers off this error?