Does it hang on the sendmail startup? Sendmail will hang for a long time
if your networking is not working properly. I would boot in single user
mode ('single' at the lilo prompt) and remove the sendmail service if you
think that might be the problem.
goodluck
jack
>
> I just installed RH 5.0 and as soon as all the services are started (the
> last one being sendmail), my computer just stops. At first I thought that
> it was my flakey computer, so I rebooted. The next time it happened, on a
> whim, I typed "getty", lo and behold I was presented with a login prompt.
>
> Why in the world would this happen? It's not a big deal for me to type in
> getty, I just feel that this may be a symptom of something worse.
>
> Robert Kennedy
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> P.S. - If someone has an old linux-compatible ISA combo ethernet card they
> want to sell, I'm in need of one.
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