sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates that it's what is responsible. Looking into the issue I've seen a number of people

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Morgan wrote: When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates that it's what is responsible. Indeed. Looking into the

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in the DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mail for set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly. If you are only relaying

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Morgan wrote: On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course. If you only want to deliver mail locally, and never consider the network at all, /usr/libexec/mail.local will do that for you. Do I need to somehow specify this as my MTA instead of sendmail or is it already