 | | | Notifications email failure | Notifications email failure 2005-08-23 - By Jeff Boyce
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Greetings -
I am a novice network manager for a small office network running a RHEL 3
server on a Dell PE2600. The server is used primarily as a Samba server for
about 10 Windows clients. It is not used as a mail server or web server
(our mail is delivered via POP3 from a 3rd party provider). I am aware that
several of the administrative programs (e.g., tape backup, Dell OMSA, UPS
battery management tool, etc.) on my server send email notifications to root
when conditional events occur. I have root's email set up to be redirected
to my email address, yet since I have not received any emails I am assuming
that I don't have something properly configured. I generally have most
services turned off that are not necessary for our local network. The
maillog
file indicates that it is unable to resolve where the email is to be sent.
When I
check running processes on our server it shows that Named is currently
running, but checking the BindDNS service through Webmin gives the following
message.
The primary configuration file for BIND /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf
does not exist, or is not valid. Create it?
Below are the messages from the /var/log/maillog file indicating the
attempts to send the email notifications.
Aug 17 01:38:01 bison sendmail[20314]: My unqualified host name (bison)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Aug 17 01:39:01 bison sendmail[20314]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(bison) -- using short name
Aug 17 01:39:02 bison sendmail[20314]: j7H8d1XK020314: from=root, size=1337,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200508170839.j7H8d1XK020314@(protected)>,
relay=root@(protected)
Aug 17 01:39:02 bison sendmail[20314]: j7H8d1XK020314:
to=jboyce@(protected), ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01,
xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=31337, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1],
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Aug 17 04:02:03 bison sendmail[20584]: My unqualified host name (bison)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Aug 17 04:03:03 bison sendmail[20584]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(bison) -- using short name
Aug 17 04:03:03 bison sendmail[20584]: j7HB33cm020584: from=root, size=5002,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200508171103.j7HB33cm020584@(protected)>,
relay=root@(protected)
Aug 17 04:03:03 bison sendmail[20584]: j7HB33cm020584: to=root, ctladdr=root
(0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=35002,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused
by [127.0.0.1]
My /etc/hosts file shows the following information. Workstations 105 and
100 are listed for proper operation of a network tape backup.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.112.1 bison
192.168.112.105 jeff
192.168.112.100 pamk
I am assuming that there is probably a simple solution to this problem, but
I am not sure how to interpret the maillog messages. What additional
configuration changes do I need to make to receive the notification emails?
Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com
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