Sendmail configuration question

[Gregory Hosler <gregory hosler eno ericsson se>]

Hi all,

I am using sendmail on a uucp client.

I have my smart-host properly set, and in the sendmail config, I have
"do not use DNS" ticked.

however, whenever sendmail starts up it hangs for 60 seconds. I see the
following in /var/log/maillog:

Oct  2 22:40:53 tomboy sendmail[6481]: My unqualified host name (tomboy) unknown
; sleeping for retry
Oct  2 22:41:53 tomboy sendmail[6481]: unable to qualify my own domain name (tom
boy) -- using short name

My hostname is "tomboy". It is properly registered in /etc/hosts.

How do I get sendmail to recognize this, and not complain.

Also, I get the following maillog messages from sendmail:
Oct  2 22:41:53 tomboy sendmail[6481]: e92Efri06481: forward /home/hosler/.forwa
rd.tomboy: World writable directory
Oct  2 22:41:53 tomboy sendmail[6481]: e92Efri06481: forward /home/hosler/.forwa
rd: World writable directory

In reality, the above 2 mentioned directories do not exist. In addition,
/home/hosler is a soft link to /mnt/home/hosler, and
/mnt/home/hosler is definately not world writeable.

-Greg

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E-Mail: Gregory Hosler <gregory.hosler@eno.ericsson.se>
Date: 03-Oct-00
Time: 10:08:23

        If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed...
             ...Oh, wait a minute, he already does.

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