newaliases

[Alex Meester]

When I use the command 'newaliases' the message "sendmail[4083]: unable to qualify my own domain name (keybis1) -- using short name" comes.

I do not know where to look for an error, cause everthing seems to function properly.

Alex

[Alex Glennie · Accepted solution]

check permissions on aliases & aliases.db.

check /etc/resolv.conf
domain uksr.hp.com

checking /etc/hosts
make it look like:

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
your_ip fully_qualified_domain_name short_name
( eg 192.0.1.1 test1.uksr.hp.com test1 )

check entries in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf your looking for inconsistencies, typo's etc ... sounds like a problem that's related to DNS / hostname resolution perhaps ?

[John Palmer]

Hi,

Make sure that you have a fully qualified name for your hostname in /etc/hosts.

An alias in /etc/hosts for hostname with a trailing . also cures this problem. ie

keybis1 keybis1.

Regards,
John

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

you could also edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
and add a line:
Dj$w.
After changing don't forget to restart sendmail:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Regards

[Mark Mitchell]

You have to go to your /etc/hosts and
and add an entry. If your host is called abc, then it will look like this

198.20.20.5 abc abc.