sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Rob
Hi, OK, I think that I now have my hostname set properly in rc.conf and /etc/hosts In rc.conf is the line hostname=xenon In /etc/hosts there is one line: 127.0.0.1 localhost xenon Upon bootup I get the following error: xenon sm-mta [1556]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown;

Re: sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
I would suggest setting the hostname as a different address from localhost. There are multiple instances of sendmail that run, as your rc.conf file has them enabled. You can use a private non-routable IP for the hostname. Hope this helps. -Derek At 04:10 PM 2/22/2006, Rob wrote: