Hi ,
From yesterday I start getting the error message from my Solaris10 server.
ERROR:
# Oct 6 14:11:06 nibappsun08 sendmail[9825]: [ID 702911 mail.alert] unable to q
ualify my own domain name (nibappsun08) -- using short name
Can anybody share me the reason why it is and how can i get rid of this issue.
Thanks & regards
Suseendran .A
Susee,
The error is being caused because 'sendmail' is not configured properly to function as a bonafide mail server. You will see this message every time you reboot the server and it will eventually time out.
If you are not using 'sendmail' the easiest thing to do is login as root and run the following commands:
svcadm stop sendmail
and then
svcadm disable sendmail
This will stop and disable sendmail. If you reboot the server at a later time you won't see the error.
If you want to use 'sendmail' later after it is configured, run the svcamd command with 'start' and 'enable'.
Regards,
jsuche
Assuming you do want to use sendmail, you should be able to shut up the message by
making sure that your fully qualified domain name in the first entry (after the IP address) on the
line for your host in /etc/hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes
For example if your machine is fred.bus.com
Use the following line in /etc/hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes
1.2.3.4fred.bus.com fred loghost
