On 21 Jun 2002, Iggy Drougge wrote:

> Jun 20 03:15:04 dec sendmail[6289]: My unqualified host name (dec) unknown;
> sleeping for retry
> Jun 20 03:16:04 dec sendmail[6289]: unable to qualify my own domain name (dec)
> -- using short name

So fix this. Add it to your /etc/hosts file (or to your DNS). Also
consider using full-qualified domain name.

> >> /etc/rc.conf looks like this:
> >> sendmail=NO             sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"
>
> >sendmail is used by numerous tools (like mail which is used by cron).
>
> But I turned it off in rc.conf...

You misunderstand. That rc.conf setting is generally for controlling if
you want to run a smtp mail server. It doesn't get rid of the command
itself.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/