On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, John P. Marr wrote:
> I have been looking at the sendmail manual in RH Linux 6.0 trying to
> figure out just what it does. As far as I can understand, it only sends
> pre-formatted messages somewhere. Could someone please explain to me just
> what sendmail does, and why when I boot linux now the system hangs at
> sendmail? Could it be because I changed the host name or something along
> these lines?
If you changed the hostname of the machine and did not change it in
/etc/hosts then sendmail will not know who you are and will want to
find that out, it will do that via a DNS lookup, now quite possably
you do not have an inet connection st this point, so you will need to
wait untill senmdail times out.
After startup either change your hosts file or stop sendmail starting
before you are connected to the net and have DNS access.
> Any comments are welcomed
>
> John
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Regards Richard
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