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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: comp.sys.ultrix
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.143208.21783@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:32:08 GMT
References: <1991Feb14.062908.4073@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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Well, your sendmail problems are really related to the fact
that you don't want your hostname to be on the 127.0.0.1 line --
at least the software as it is set up doesn't like it.  $w is set 
to the unqualified name (wrongly, but what the heck.. as long as
we know....).   The software is clearly confused as it looks things
up, finds your unqualified name on the 127.0.0.1 line,
and uses the first name it finds there (localhost).  If you 
changed this string to FISHLIPS you'd find that that showed up on
your mail.

1. Change your sendmail.cf back to how it was

	- don't define $w
	- Define $D to be your domain name

2. CHange /etc/hosts -- remove your hostname from the 
	127 line.

3. make sure your hostname command returns your fully qualified
	hostname

things should work.  Works for us on our machines.

the 127.0.0.1 does NOT get set up when the kernel is configured
but it does when you install the system.  What the installation
folks figured was that when you set up your network you would
use the netsetup script as you are told to do in the installation
guide and system management docs. When one uses this, the /etc/hosts
file problem gets fixed at the same time it adds the ifconfig line
in /etc/rc.local.

Hope this helps.

Fred