Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>My guess is that DNS was propagated and now athome.net is in the maps of >the DNS server you query. Probably. But (from orig post): Domain Name: ATHOME.NET Status: clientTransferProhibited Updated Date: 02-apr-2007 Creation Date: 30-nov-1999 Expiration Date: 30-nov-2015 whois sh

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
My guess is that DNS was propagated and now athome.net is in the maps of the DNS server you query. Just change your /etc/hosts file, you can use a domain suffix that does not exist for instance. -Derek At 12:18 PM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >I don't think your hosts file is correc

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>I don't think your hosts file is correct, unless you are telling me you own >the domain athome.net. You need to use a domain name you own or one that >is not in use. OK. No I don't own athome.net. BUT I've been using it for years without problems -- until today! As I said, the hosts file

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
V.I.Victor wrote: Somthing changed -- literally overnight! Or perhaps, some old problem is just showing up. All my log reports, et cetera are stuck in mqueue. Example -- for years, the following line has been in root's crontab: (sorry if folded) @reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/usr/bin/mail -s

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
I don't think your hosts file is correct, unless you are telling me you own the domain athome.net. You need to use a domain name you own or one that is not in use. -Derek At 10:42 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local CORRECTION

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution is >working in /etc/nsswitch.conf Thanks for your continued input! /etc/nsswitch.conf has never been changed: group: compat group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution is >working in /etc/nsswitch.conf Thanks for your continued input! /etc/nsswitch.conf has never been changed: group: compat group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: compat passwd_compat: nis shells: files

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Check that localhost is defined in /etc/hosts and your name resolution is working in /etc/nsswitch.conf -Derek At 09:40 AM 4/3/2007, V.I.Victor wrote: >Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net. Sendmail is >just trying to deliver the email. Normally you don't ne

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread V.I.Victor
>Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net. Sendmail is >just trying to deliver the email. Normally you don't need the domain to >send to root. As long as you have root defined in /etc/mail/aliases you >should be able to send to just root. > >@reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/u

Re: Help! Mail to 'localhost' not staying local

2007-04-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Your domain is not set correctly, or you set it to athome.net. Sendmail is just trying to deliver the email. Normally you don't need the domain to send to root. As long as you have root defined in /etc/mail/aliases you should be able to send to just root. @reboot /bin/echo "reboot" |/usr/bi