It's only required if you need mail to go in and out of the system in
question.
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:07:10 -0500, Rob Yale wrote:
>Good point, I guess I don't need sendmail. I was wondering if it was a
>required service or not.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rob Yale
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Burger
>> Sent: December 12, 2000 3:36 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: Another sendmail question
>>
>>
>> It is definitely related to DNS.
>>
>> Does your resolv.conf file point to valid DNS servers, and does your
>> reverse DNS have a valid address for your system's IP address?
>>
>> You could also add an entry in your /etc/hosts file for your IP and a
>> name, so that Sendmail can finish loading.
>>
>> eth0 is definitely failing because PCMCIA is not yet initialized...once
>> PCMCIA loads, eth0 loads up right away.
>>
>> Since this appears to be a laptop, my question to you is: Do you need
>> Sendmail running on that system? You could just as easily point
>> Pine/whatever mailer you're using to the smtp and pop3 servers you need.
>>
>> On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rob Yale wrote:
>>
>> > When my system boots, it pauses on sendmail for an inordinately
>> long time.
>> > Could this have something to do with name resolution, and if
>> so, how do I
>> > resolve it? Another factor that I was also wondering about is that eth0
>> > initially fails; presumably because pcmcia hasn't loaded yet. I tried
>> > changing the load order in rc3.d but it still seems to suffer
>> from a delayed
>> > initialization. Any thoughts?
>>
>>
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