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  From: Adam W <woja@optushome.com.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:33:21 +1000

sendmail stall on start

Hi there,

I have just updated my server to Mandrake 7.2 - a fresh install, one little
problem though - i cant get sendmail to start. I have it to start on
startup. But it goes to start it and stalls. Therefore wont boot the
machine. I managed to disable sendmail starting on boot and read through the
logs.

I seem to be getting this problem:

<snip>
sendmail[459]: My Unqualified host name (woja) unknown; sleeping for retry.
</snip>

I never had a problem with having a unqualified hostname with my old
slackware box??

I am currently running sendmail 8.11.3

I am guessing i need to set some config files. But i have checked out the
sendmail website, and i think their documentation for setting up sendmail is
quite limited, if u have NFI about setting up sendmail from scratch.

Any help/guidance is appreciated.

Adam W.

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