what did you set as your machines ip?
do a hostname from the commandline
then in your hosts file on the next line after the 127.0.0.1 .. line
add this
machine ip hostname hostname.domainname
Sincerely,
Brent Clements
Stargazer Internet Services
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, New Bie wrote:
> Hello commune,
>
> I recently installed RH5.2 kernel 2.0.36 on my i586. Everything is ok
> except during bootup, sendmail daemon takes preety long time to start.
> This machine is not on the net presently, but will be shortly. The
> parameters to sendmail daemon are -bd -q1h. I added one more
> parameter, -v, and got this:
>
> 050 Warning: localhost is not qualified. fix $j in sendmail.cf
>
> I did "aliases" on the command prompt and got the same warning. Tried
> to trace this in sendmail.cf, but it seems i can't understand a nibble
> in that file. I dont have sendmail.cf man page.
>
> What do i need to fix this?
>
> Thank all of you in advance -nB
>
> P.S. my /etc/hosts file have a single line like this:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost <my_machine_name> I've put my machine name at
> that place. I dont know where to put a dummy ip address for my machine
> (somewhere in rc.c/inet.d/... i dont know where)
>
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