[SunHELP] sendmail

[Jim Pennino]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:34:46AM +0100, Paul  R?ttgerding  AOD wrote:
> Hello,
> i have to ultrasparc 10 server with Solaris 7
> Normaly i dont use sendmail
> 
> On the first i have often the folloing messages:
> Mar 15 17:31:30 ISTASUN1 sendmail[8087]: My unqualified host name (ISTASUN1)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Mar 15 17:32:30 ISTASUN1 sendmail[8087]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (ISTASUN1) -- using short name
> Mar 15 18:01:32 ISTASUN1 sendmail[8111]: My unqualified host name (ISTASUN1)
> unknown; sleeping for retry
> Mar 15 18:02:32 ISTASUN1 sendmail[8111]: unable to qualify my own domain name
> (ISTASUN1) -- using short name
> 
>  How can i stop this.

Make sure your hostname is fully qualified in the first entry after the
IP in /etc/hosts, i.e. 1.2.3.4 host.mydomain.com, or in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
find the Dj entry (normally commented out as #Dj$w.Foo.Com) and make it
Dj$w.mydomain.com or Djhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain.com is YOUR domain).

Also, if you have a /etc/nsswitch.conf, the hosts entry should be
hosts:  files dns
 
> On the second machine it looks like this:
> Mar 19 02:07:18 gerasun1 sendmail[6194]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map
> "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases
> Mar 19 02:22:18 gerasun1 sendmail[6195]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map
> "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases
> Mar 19 02:37:18 gerasun1 sendmail[6196]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): dbm map
> "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases
> 
> How can i stop this.

One or more directories in the path /etc/mail is group and/or user
writable. Change the permissions so /etc and /etc/mail are writable only 
by root.

 
> Are there configuration files to edit so that i can give sendmail what it is
> missing ??
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> Paul Rvttgerding
> EMail   pr at aod-fm.de
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Jim Pennino