In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James W. Lynch writes:
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>Hi, all.
>
>I got bit big by sendmail and had to re-install Debian. I installed
>sendmail and after that the machine failed to boot ever again. It
>looked like the networking got royally screwed up. I didn't have
>a recovery disk (shame on me!) and so I couldn't get in to fix anything
>and I couldn't find a way to boot single user, so re-install.
>
Was sendmail just hanging? If it was then it will eventually
time out on a nameserver lookup. I've run into the same situation myself.
--Chris
>Now so I don't have to do that again, I'm building myself a rescue
>disk and want to know what anyone is using for an editor on their
>rescue disks.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim.
>
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>Jim Lynch, Sales Analyst, Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO
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