I'm working up logcabin, a newly built machine on which I've installed
Fedora Core 4. It's proved a bit more of a challenge than
previous
installations, but it's running.
Each time I boot the machine up, it hangs for about 3 minutes
trying to start sendmail. Here is the relevant part
of /var/log/maillog:
May 11 21:24:35 logcabin sendmail[2486]: My unqualified host
name (logcabin) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 11 21:25:35 logcabin sendmail[2486]: unable to qualify my
own domain name (logcabin) -- using short name
May 11 21:25:35 logcabin sendmail[2486]: alias
database /etc/aliases rebuilt by
root
May 11 21:25:35 logcabin sendmail[2486]: /etc/aliases: 76
aliases, longest 10 bytes, 765 bytes total
May 11 21:25:35 logcabin sendmail[2493]: My unqualified host
name (logcabin) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 11 21:26:35 logcabin sendmail[2493]: unable to qualify my
own domain name (logcabin) -- using short name
May 11 21:26:35 logcabin sendmail[2498]: starting daemon
(8.13.4): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00
May 11 21:26:35 logcabin sm-msp-queue[2503]: My unqualified host
name (logcabin) unknown; sleeping for retry
May 11 21:27:36 logcabin sm-msp-queue[2503]: unable to qualify
my own domain name (logcabin) -- using short name
May 11 21:27:36 logcabin sm-msp-queue[2508]: starting daemon
(8.13.4): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:00:00
Sendmail does start, and the system then continues the boot-up
process apparently normally.
/etc/hosts looks like this:
ABC.DEF.1.3 marian
ABC.DEF.1.2 andrew
127.0.0.1 logcabin localhost
(Sorry to be coy with the ABC.DEF, but I don't know whether it
is
considered bad form to post one's internal network addresses on
a public forum.) Logcabin's non-loopback address is
ABC.DEF.1.4. When I try using the FC4 Gnome network config tool
to add that address, it wipes out the loopback address line -
when I put the loopback address line in, the non-loopback
address gets wiped again.
Wny is sendmail unhappy, and what am I doing wrong?
=====Andrew
