Hello Don,

If you wish to disable it, login as root and at a command prompt type:

chkconfig --levels 2345 sendmail off

OTOH, I have had a similiar problem, and I found that I had a static IP
address, but no /etc/hosts entry pointing back to myself. Use your
favorite editor to edit /etc/hosts and confirm there is a line for your
server:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.x.x     myserver.mydomain.com   myserver

The first line should always be there, modify the second line to your
needs.

The other time I had a similiar problem was due to a NIC driver not
loading properly. If you can ping other servers, then that's not your
problem.

Regards,
Stephan


On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 06:42, D. Babbage wrote:
> Being a complete newbie I installed Red Hat 7.2 and tried to set up my
> machine to be a server (just for an office intranet - file and print
> serving - like an NT server). Now on bootup it sits for a long time on
> loading sendmail (about 2 mins) before continuing. How do I disable this
> function? What settings do I need for using the machine as a server (as
> described above)?
> Don
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