On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu AT orgfarm.uu DOT se> 
wrote:
>>
> I looked at the /var/log/maillog and found a problem with the domain name, 
> see excerpt below. I'm not quite sure where it picked up 
> localhost.localdomain from and where to change it to the proper name. Does it 
> look in /etc/hosts or /etc/BackupPC/config.pl?

The actual hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network.

>And FWIW, I can't find an /etc/sendmail.cf for some reason. Has this been 
>removed and set somewhere else maybe?

RHEL/Centos put this under /etc/mail - and normally you would edit the
much simpler sendmail.mc file, setting MASQUERADE_AS if you want it to
pretend to be some other host.

> Further, I discovered a problem with the installdir-variable on this 
> particular machine. It was set to /usr. Checking the working email BPC-server 
> I discovered that it should be /usr/share/BackupPC and changed it accordingly 
> and then restarted the BPC daemon. In fact, this errant variable might be why 
> restores have failed as it can't find the right scripts to run.

Is this from the EPEL rpm version?

> 1. Removed any reference to localhost.domain and/or localhost in my 
> /etc/hosts file.

That seems likely to break things.

> 2. Added "ALL: 127.0.0.1" in /etc/hosts.allow.
> 3. And for good measure (not necessarily required) added "sendmail: 
> localhost" in /etc/hosts.allow.

That, or an equivalent, should have been there by default.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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