Issue with the host name resolving

Hello again.

The issue which I want to describe now appeared in first when I installed the OS.

When the system starts, the messages like presented below appeared in the console:

Jul 7 16:01:40 <host_name> sendmail[366]: My unqualified host name (<host_name>) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jul 7 16:02:40 <host_name>sendmail[366]: unable to qualify my own domain name (<host_name>) -- using short name
Jul 7 16:02:42 <host_name>sm-mta[421]: My unqualified host name (<host_name>) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jul 7 16:03:42 <host_name>sm-mta[421]: unable to qualify my own domain name (<host_name>) -- using short name
Jul 7 16:03:42 <host_name>sm-msp-queue[425]: My unqualified host name (<host_name>) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jul 7 16:04:43 <host_name>sm-msp-queue[425]: unable to qualify my own domain name (firma123) -- using short name

I never met this before, therefore I googled it and found the solutions:

1. If you do not plan to use sendmail, you can disable it.
   Add sendmail_enabled="NONE" to your /etc/rc.conf file.
2. The other way to specify any domain within /etc/hosts. My configuration is:
   

   192.168.2.11 ltr
   192.168.2.11 ltr.my.com
   

As a result, there is no delay on the system start anymore.

Have a nice day!

P.S. Thanks these guys for the answer.

Before application installation

Everyone, hello again.

Sorry for delay, I was really busy last 3 months, so I haven't a time to do any blog's activity. But now I have a time and will continue configuration posts. Lets continue post installation configuration.

I plan to perform all installations via ports and this is mean that I will download everything from Internet. Lets increase the download speed and decrease the load on general FreeBSD.org servers. Create file /etc/make.conf and add into it:

MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \
    ftp://ftp8.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp7.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp6.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp5.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp4.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp3.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp2.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR} \
    ftp://ftp.ua.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}

Now, make will check Ukrainian servers first for distributives.

I want to thank these guys for this information.

The next step is to make ports versions actual. Cvsup will help to do it. I will not use it within X-system.

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make
make install

I have to configure it to work with Ukrainian cvsup servers and specify what exactly I want to update. I will use supfile from template:

cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile /usr/local/etc/

I want to start this utility via cron, so I don't need graphic interface to it. The command to run update is:

cvsup -g -L 2 <path_to_supfile>

My configuration:

/usr/local/etc/cvs-supfile
*default host=cvsup5.ua.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
ports-all

You can use cvsup for src update too, but I don't plane re-build the world this time and will not update something except the ports.

Check handbook for additional information.

Well, now my ports are updated, this process scheduled on a daily basis and I can start X-system installation.

Best regards!
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FreeBSD 9.0 Installation

Start data:
Notebook: Asus x51rl
hdd: 120 Gb
RAM: 1 Gb
Network: wi-fi
OS version: 9.0

Installation:
I choose this version because it is the latest stable version of FreeBSD. Additionally, I have already worked with previous versions and want to compare them.

In this version installation became easier then before. I just was asked about disk partitions, what I want to install (ports, src, docs) and the installation started. I'm not sure about is this good change or bad. Actually, I preferred to do the "minimal" installation in previous versions and add exactly what I need later. Well, lets see what we'll get. Possibly, I didn't read installation guide carefully.

After installation the installer asked me about services which i  want auto-start  And now I have only 4 services. Not sure it is good for everyone, but I never used a lot of them, so it is OK for me. Additionally, as I specified above, wi-fi is the only net interface for my NB now, so I was ready to configure wi-fi manually. But installer proposed me to configure my network interfaces and managed it well. Therefore I have Internet on my NB and this is great because I plan to install everything other from ports.

Additionally, the installer proposed me to create a new user and i did it. I need to switch to root from this account, so I defined group wheel for it; my command shell is tcsh.

Now the installation complete and I can configure system now.

Starting

Hello.

I've decided to create this blog for describing my FreeBSD experience. Actually, I worked with FreeBSD 6 and 7 on my notebook, but for some reasons must have stoped.

But now I decided to continue my work with this perfect OS and will describe all my experience here.

My reasons to do it:

1. I have reinstalled FreeBSD a lot of times and every time I searched for configuration information I need again and again because some posts I used before had been deleted when I needed them. But now I will have all it gathered in one place and this will be the information I need only.
2. I want to thank everyone who posted different solutions and possibly my blog will be useful for someone too.
3. I plan to write all posts here in English. Also I plan translate some posts to Japanese. Therefore, it will my language practice too.

Well, I think I have told for this post. So lets start.

どうぞよろしくお願いします。