Just put the FQDN in /etc/hosts
# /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 box1.mydomain.com box
Travis
Mark Woodson wrote:
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 03:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I just loaded freeBSD 5.1 and ran into some troubleI have edited
the /etc/hosts file to show the required namebut when I boot up the
system hangs and gives the message "...My unspecified name is
BLAA..Sleeping for retry" It comes out of this loop if I hit ^C. I have
That's sendmail saying it can't figure out the host name. Unless the machine
is handling mail, it's not really a big deal. It's not really hanging,
you're just not being patient enough in letting it timeout.
Configure sendmail properly or disable it entirely to fix the problem. The
problem isn't really /etc/hosts.
-Mark
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