Re: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-04 Thread David Landgren
Charles Howse wrote: Did you enter your hostname and ip address in /etc/resolv.conf? I don't if it will fix your problem; but is helps when many applications complain about the hostname. I think you mean /etc/hosts, something like 10.0.0.1 larry.domain.tld larry Andrew Gould Uh, no I

RE: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-04 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:24, Charles Howse wrote: Can you confirm my suspicion that this did not occur prior to 4.8-RELEASE-p4? Sorry, I cannot confirm that. It start happening (for me) either in 4.7 or possibly 4.6.2. Seems to me that the reason for the p4 patch was something to do with

RE: Sendmail is sleepy - SOLVED (sort of)

2003-09-04 Thread Charles Howse
The fact that the FQDN for this box is simply 'larry' is the cause of the problem...? Yes. Sort of. As I understand it, 'larry' isn't enough to get be an entire FQDN. So, really, it's not a FQDN, since 'larry' isn't a top level domain like 'com' or 'org'. But, more simply, yes,

Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, When I boot, I get what I assume are timeouts when loading sendmail. Sendmail_submit My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry Unable to qualify my hostname, using short name Sendmail-clientmqueue My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry Unable to qualify

Re: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
Did you enter your hostname and ip address in /etc/resolv.conf? I don't if it will fix your problem; but is helps when many applications complain about the hostname. Andrew Gould On Wednesday 03 September 2003 09:32 am, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I boot, I get what I assume are timeouts

RE: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
Did you enter your hostname and ip address in /etc/resolv.conf? I don't if it will fix your problem; but is helps when many applications complain about the hostname. Andrew Gould Uh, no I didn't. Man resolv.conf doesn't say anything about how to do that, and it's never been

Re: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 10:32, Charles Howse wrote: Hi, When I boot, I get what I assume are timeouts when loading sendmail. Sendmail_submit My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry Unable to qualify my hostname, using short name Sendmail-clientmqueue My unqualified

RE: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
Hi Charles, I have had this problems on both my FreeBSD boxes as well, and never found a good solution. Ouch! I hate to hear that. Can you confirm my suspicion that this did not occur prior to 4.8-RELEASE-p4? Seems to me that the reason for the p4 patch was something to do with sendmail