Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-29 Thread Michael
On 28/06/2010 23:21, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:12:38 +0100, Michaelmlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but I don't quite understand why. It's my laptop system and I don't really need or want sendmail there. You may want to reconsider this statement. :-) I did just that :) So

sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-28 Thread Michael
Hello. My console is being flooded with this kind of messages: Jun 28 15:49:02 prime sendmail[57268]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 28 15:49:06 prime sendmail[21451]: unable to qualify my own domain name (localhost) -- using short name Jun 28 15:50:02

Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:46 +0100, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. My console is being flooded with this kind of messages: Jun 28 15:49:02 prime sendmail[57268]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 28 15:49:06 prime sendmail[21451]: unable to

Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-28 Thread Michael
On 28/06/2010 22:43, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:51:46 +0100, Michaelmlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: My console is being flooded with this kind of messages: Jun 28 15:49:02 prime sendmail[57268]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 28 15:49:06 prime

Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-28 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:12:38 +0100, Michael mlmichae...@gmail.com wrote: Yes but I don't quite understand why. It's my laptop system and I don't really need or want sendmail there. You may want to reconsider this statement. :-) I guess it must be some script trying to send email instead

Re: sendmail: My unqualified host name

2010-06-28 Thread Jon Radel
On 6/28/10 6:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: But how can I find out exactly what is trying to use sendmail (which fails and complaints)? I think it's sendmail itself that complains on startup (running as local-only delivery system). That's certainly what it looks like. The only change