I have had this problem as well, and sendmail would never time out.
Well, not in 60 minutes anyways. I am not a sendmail wiz, but I just
bought O'Rielly's book and am going thru it and it is a pretty good
book. When I was having the problem with it hanging, my hostname
was declared in /etc/hosts and ip addresses were defined. In fact, I
could ping the hanging system from my NT workstation on the same
subnet.
WC
-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>> >> My RH42 is not having a good morning. When I powered up the system,
it
>> >> appears to start normally; however, when it gets to the "Starting
>> >> sendmail: sendmail" in the boot seq, everything stops. If I do a
>> >> Ctrl-Alt-Del, it shuts back down and reboots the system....which of
>> >> course stops again at the same point.
>> >>
>> >> How do I get past this error? I haven't configured the sendmail at
all.
>>
>> I don't seem to have the same problem with my RedHat 5 although I do not
>> have a network connection started on boot-up either. Mine's a PPP dial-up
>> connection. Thot the last time this problem was raised on this list, the
>> conclusion was that the networking options were not set up properly (If I
>> didn't remember wrongly). Do check your /etc/sysconfig/network to ensure
>> that a proper hostname is specified for your machine. Hope that helps.
>
>FAQ! FAQ!
>
>When sendmail starts up it tries to determine the host name of the system
it is
>running on. If you do not have your local hostname entered into /etc/hosts,
it
>tries a DNS lookup, and this is what takes a while to time out.
>
>Solution:
>
>If you have problems with Sendmail pausing on system boot, make sure that
your
>local system name and IP address are in /etc/hosts.
>
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