SUMMARY:
Most people reponded to my question have pointed me to
the /etc/hosts file. I need to provide the full
qualified domain name such as venus.test.com
Olivier Giraud suggested to add just a "." in the
hostname and not for a valid domainname. I have
modified the following entry in the /etc/hosts and it
works !
xxx.x.xxx.xx venus.
Next I rebooted the server and sendmail is working
again.
Many thanks to the following people:
Olivier Giraud <OGIRAUD@cedelglobalservices.com
Fiamingo Frank <FiamingF@strsoh.org>
Charlie Mengler <charliem@anchorchips.com>
Tekin Gulsend <tgulsend@azerty.com>
Eric Lewandowski <eric@disco.cs.odu.edu>
Zhouna <zhouna@asiainfo.com>
Khaled <khaledt@sts.com.jo>
Rothenanger Juergen <Juergen.Rothenanger@telekom.de>
zahi shachak <zahis@goldenlines.co.il>
Tang Koon <KTang@sanwaint.com>
E Muller <emr@wcomp.gov.za>
Chris Wheeler <Chris.Wheeler@wcom.com>
Dick Gray <gray@diasemi.co.uk>
Matt Reynolds <reynolmd@sun.aston.ac.uk>
My Original questions:
======================
> I have a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.6 serving a small
> work group. Yesterday I have downloaded the "Solaris
> 2.6 Recommended Patch Cluster. Date: 05/05/99" from
> sunsolve.com. I applied this patch cluster to my
> machine today. Upon completion, I rebooted this
> server, and noticed the following error message
> appeared durring boot up:
>
> venus% May 10 13:46:56 venus sendmail [1166]: My
> unqualified host name (venus) unknown; sleep for
retry
>
> When the server finished booting up. I logged on as
> user and try to send a message to another user and
saw
> a different error message at the console windows:
>
> May 10 14:12:33 venus sendmail [693]: unable to
> qualify my own domain name (venus) -- using
shortname
>
> The message I tried to send gone through all right.
>
> Does anyone know what are the problems and are there
> any fix for this errors ? Please let me know.
>
> Thanks in advance. I'll summaries.
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