I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is that it seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message. No, I specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well.
Weston On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:27 am, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > > Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my FreeBSD > > 4.7 stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the > > following message: > > > > recovering vi editor sessions: > > > > After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot > > resolve its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot > > sequence in a normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list archives > > but there does not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of > > behavior. I looked through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any > > reference to this sort of thing and I found nothing. > > Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in fact, > > I specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a > > buildworld. > > Well, somehow sendmail still manages to (attempt to) get loaded. If you > don't update sendmail during buildworld then it may be the version that > got installed when you first installed FreeBSD. > > Is there a "sendmail_enable" line in /etc/rc.conf? > > What the error message tries to tell you is that your IP address cannot > be resolved to DNS name. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
