amavisd fails to start on reboot, but no problems starting manually [SOLVED]

[Ryan de Laplante (personal)]

On 2013-04-15 9:25 PM, Ryan de Laplante (personal) wrote:
>> # /etc/init.d/amavis start
>> Starting amavisd: hostname: Name or service not known
>>   The value of variable $myhostname is "", but should have been
>>   a fully qualified domain name; perhaps uname(3) did not provide such.
>>   You must explicitly assign a FQDN of this host to variable $myhostname
>>   in /etc/amavis/conf.d/05-node_id, or fix what uname(3) provides as 
>> a host's
>>   network name!
>> (failed).
>

Note to the developers of amavisd: this error message did not appear in 
the amavis.log or syslog.  It would have been very helpful to see it in 
a log file when I was diagnosing my bootup issues.


Ryan