sendmail error - HPUX 11.00

[Pamela Hammitt]

I cloned a new workstation today for a make_tape_recovery. When the new workstation rebooted, I keep getting the following error over and over and over. How do I stop it or fix it?

sqqhp091 sendmail: unable to qualify my own domain name (sqqhp091) -- using short name

Thanks
Pam

[Doug O'Leary · Accepted solution]

Hey;

You can do several things to correct this.

1. Appropriately configure DNS. Update /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf

This assumes that your workstation is in DNS.

2. Update /etc/hosts w/fully qualified domainname of your host.

3. Update the Dj macro in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to reflect your FQDN.

Of the three, the first is probably preferable; the second is probaby done more commonly, and the third should be avoided if possible.

HTH;

Doug

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Pam:

Make sure that your /etc/hosts file contains your server name including its fully qualified name. For example:

10.100.101.102 yourhost yourhost.abc.com

Regards!

...JRF...

[Doug O'Leary]

Oh yea; one other option is to stop sendmail...

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
ch_rc -a -p SENDMAIL_SERVER=0

You probably *should* do this if your workstation never needs to receive email.

Doug

[Pamela Hammitt]

Fixed it myself...I fixed up the /etc/hosts file and also stopped sendmail.

Thanks for you responses
Pam

[Pamela Hammitt]

Fixed /etc/hosts and stopped sendmail