sendmail question

[Mark Vollmers]

hi, all. THis is probably a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway. In sendmail, when it starts, I get the error saying that I need to modify the dj$ parameter to the domain name. The first line in the /etc/hosts file is

IP munix munix (where munix is the machine name)

The /etc/nsswitch.conf file has hosts: nis files (hp had me put the nis there when I had a networking problem)

Where do I find the domain name for sendmail.cf? I have tried munix, mclbody.com (the domain for the NT server), mbceng (which is the NIS domain name) and thrown in some other variations of stuff. The unix server is not connected to the outside world and would be linked to the windows network (as far as getting the IP address). We do not have DNS on the system. Nothing seems to remove the error. What exactly am I missing? Thanks!

Mark

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mark:

Take a look at document #KLTKBRC00005381 in the Technical Knowledge Base.

...JRF...

[linuxfan · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark,

Update your hosts file with

IP munix munix.mclbody.com

and bounce your sendmail
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop ; /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

-Regards
I am RU

[linuxfan]

Hi Mark,

Just wanted to point you to the relavant section in the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf which confirms to what I had said in my previous post.

/Begin Quote /
This is required only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain. If you are not using DNS, and the official host name (ie,the first entry in /etc/hosts following your IP address) is not a fully-qualified host name, then sendmail will have difficulty resolving your domain name.
/End Quote/

What this is basically saying is, if sendmail can't determine your domain either through DNS or the first entry following the IP address then it expects the $J macro to be set in the sendmail configuration file.

-Hope that answers your question
I am RU

[Mark Vollmers]

Thanks! That listing wasn't there when I got the server (it was munix munix in /etc/hosts), so it never occured to me to link in the domain name like that. Now I know.

Mark

[Joseph C. Denman]

Your domain name should be listed in your /etc/resolve.conf

#/etc/resolv.conf
domain my.domain.com
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx