On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:14:27PM -0700, Kelvin Ng wrote:
> Hi ;
> I recently installed sendmail and facing some
> problem after completed installation. When I manually
> enable sendmail by typing "sendmail start" , the
> system prompt me "User unknown ....." , what does it
i think it tries to send a mail to a user start@urmachine
and does not find the user
> If I let the system enble sendmail automatically
> during boot time , it takes very long to initialize .
> Can somebody help ?
this seems to be a name resolution problem,
try providing urmachine and ip in the /etc/hosts
if u not have network card, put
127.0.0.1 fqdn_of_ur_machine host_name_of_ur_machine
into /etc/hosts
and check for a /etc/resolv.conf, with a valid nameserver entry.
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