On Wed, 17 Dec 97 00:47:24 -0500,
Lee Larson <llarson@louisville.edu> wrote:
> 
> (3) At startup sendmail holds up the proceedings with complaints about 
> the machine name being unqualified. It eventually gives up and the login 
> prompt appears. I've been through the setup files several times and 
> cannot find any mistakes. What am I missing?

This probably means you don't have a fully qualified domain name
(FQDN) for your host (which is not unlikely for a host with only
dial-up net access).  I would recommend that you give it the same
domain name as your ISP.  It's probably the safest way.

Ken