[SOLVED] Command line mail taking too long to send; unable to qualify my own domain name
Hello,
I'm having a problem with my mail. When I send mail, it takes a long time for the send to complete.
In the below, datestamp is just a simple script to put in a no-white-space date/time stamp.
a tail -50 /var/log/syslog shows a problem with :
Here is my /etc/hosts file:
Here is my ifconfig output showing the correct ip:
Please note the lag between timestamp 19:38:59 and 19:39:56 where broadcast RCP timed out and it was unable to qualify my own domain name. Any idea how to fix this?
With thanks,
Narnie
---------- Post updated at 08:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:02 PM ----------
Well, I figured it out just now after I posted this.
The last thing I tried was commenting out my hostname listing in /etc/hosts like so:
This is an auto-generated hosts file from a script I wrote to make sure all computers have the same hosts-file on my home network.
Evidently, it is not good to have your own hostname in the hosts file like this.
If any networking guru might want to comment on why this is so, this may help us mere amateurs learn from my mistake.
Hope this might help someone else that might ever have this problems.
Yours,
Narnie
---------- Post updated at 08:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:09 PM ----------
I take it back. It isn't a fix.
When I commented out the computer in /etc/hosts, then the system gave this:
and this:
Now back to square one. How to resolve the original issue.
Narnie
---------- Post updated at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:18 PM ----------
OK, here's the "partial fix."
sendmail MUST have a fully qualified domain name or it gives this error. So "tweak" the /etc/hosts file like so:
That fixed both problems. mail now sends quickly and I can ssh to toshiba-laptop without error and do a sudo su without an error report.
The problem now is that I don't get mail. Hehe. Oh the joys ! Any ideas how to fix all these issues at once?
Cheerio,
Narnie
---------- Post updated at 09:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:18 PM ----------
Ok, here is the real fix.
Note periods at the end the hosts of the 127.0.0.1 line and 192.158.1.54 as in:
localhost.
toshiba-laptop.
That satisfied sendmail and mail works immediately with no sleeping and actually delivers the mail !!! ssh'ing works as well now.
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