Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-16 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:52, Steve Mayer wrote: > > Riccardo, > > > > Try adding your local machines hostname and IP address in here. Not > > just the localhost entry. Sendmail is hanging because it cannot > > resolve your hostname. > > > > I

Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-16 Thread Riccardo Gusso
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:52, Steve Mayer wrote: > Riccardo, > > Try adding your local machines hostname and IP address in here. Not > just the localhost entry. Sendmail is hanging because it cannot > resolve your hostname. > I am not in a local network, my machine is a laptop and I acces

Re: Sendmail hangs at startup

2003-01-15 Thread nate
Riccardo Gusso said: > > Where could the cause of the problem be? most often in my experience the case of sendmail hanging on boot is it cannot resolve the host name(s) it is responsible for. Check sendmail's configuration(/etc/mail) and be sure your name resolution is working. if your NIC isn't a