On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 5:45 PM Alexander Dalloz <ad+li...@uni-x.org> wrote:
>
> Am 30.09.2023 um 23:22 schrieb Patrick Dupre:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It seems that 09/09, the sendmail was working fine, but not on 09/16.
> >
> > Now I get
> >
> > systemctl start sendmail.service
> > Job for sendmail.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
> > See "systemctl status sendmail.service" and "journalctl -xeu
> > sendmail.service" for details.
> >
> > journalctl -xeu sendmail.service
> >
> > Subject: A start job for unit sendmail.service has begun execution
> > ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> > ░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> > ░░
> > ░░ A start job for unit sendmail.service has begun execution.
> > ░░
> > ░░ The job identifier is 13643.
> > Sep 30 23:08:29 Sappho sendmail[88774]: My unqualified host name (Sappho)
> > unknown; sleeping for retry
>
> https://users.fedoraproject.narkive.com/3QtoAqYk/fc3-problems-with-sendmail#post2
>
> > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: sendmail.service: start operation timed
> > out. Terminating.
> > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: sendmail.service: Failed with result
> > 'timeout'.
> > ░░ Subject: Unit failed
> > ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> > ░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> > ░░
> > ░░ The unit sendmail.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
> > 'timeout'.
> > Sep 30 23:09:15 Sappho systemd[1]: Failed to start sendmail.service -
> > Sendmail Mail Transport Agent.
> > ░░ Subject: A start job for unit sendmail.service has failed
> > ░░ Defined-By: systemd
> > ░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
> > ░░
> > ░░ A start job for unit sendmail.service has finished with a failure.
> > ░░
> > ░░ The job identifier is 13643 and the job result is failed.
> >
> > I have in
> > /etc/hostname
> > Sappho
> >
> > in /etc/host.conf
> > multi on
> >
> > in /etc/hosts
> > # Loopback entries; do not change.
> > # For historical reasons, localhost precedes localhost.localdomain:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> > localhost4.localdomain4
> > ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> > localhost6.localdomain6
> > # See hosts(5) for proper format and other examples:
> > # 192.168.1.10 foo.mydomain.org foo
> > # 192.168.1.13 bar.mydomain.org bar
> >
> > I do not see anything about sendmail in dmesg.
> >
> > Something wrong now?
>
> Sendmail requires a FQDN; see
> https://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/whoami.html
This is a sharp edge... A Fully Qualified Domain Name ends in a dot
('.'). The dot denotes the top of the DNS tree.
Systemd's hostnamectl strips the trailing dot when setting a hostname.
Jeff
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