Sendmail issue

[Tom Horan]

I am getting a warning in my rc.log. It is saying

Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail start":

Warning: local host name (sys_name) is not qualified; fix$j in config file /etc/mail/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 76 bytes total
sendmail

Has anybody come accross this before ?

Cheers
Paul

[Eugen Cocalea]

Hi,

a quote from the (very well documented) /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:

# For example, if you see this warning: #
# #
# WARNING: local host name (sys1) is not qualified; fix $j in config file #
# #
# then you need to uncomment the Dj macro and add your domain. #
# #
# Change the line: #
# #Dj$w.Foo.COM #
# to #
# Dj$w.hp.com

(well, I don't know how good it will look, pasted from the file, but anyway, dig in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, look for the error you got and do what they say :) )

E.

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Paul,

sendmail *should* be able to work out what "j" equates to, if it can't you need to set it in your sendmail.cf

Djmachine.company.com

OR

Dj$w.$m (if w and m are known).

$w is the hostname
$m is the domainname

Run /usr/lib/sendmail -d0.1 to see what sendmail thinks.

Rgds, Robin.

[Craig Rants]

You could also fix this through dns or /etc/hosts by making sure you can resolve your FQDN. Maybe you resolv.conf may need a little tweaking as well. Does it have:
domain yourdomain.com

or

search somedomains.com anotherdomain.com

C

[linuxfan]

Hi Paul,

Update your /etc/hosts file to indicate

IP hostname hostname.domain.com

If you are using DNS, make sure nslookup returns FQDN.

-HTH
Ramesh

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,

Check for etc/hosts file for Full qulified domain name for your server. Change it if not.
Secondly edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file look for dj and put FQDN infront of it (servername.domain name) then restart the sendmail by
sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Goodluck,
-USA..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Paul,

Try these links,

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=d98676f314058c1afc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000011495502

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=d98676f314058c1afc/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000054056576

Hope this helps.

Regds