error message appear on screen

[montecrito777]

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

[Reshma Malusare]

Can you please copy the error here...

[montecrito777]

This is the error message :-

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


thanks

[Peter Godron]

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.

[Matti_Kurkela]

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.