It's easier to run ntsysv as root - it does all of that transparently. On 7 Mar 2002, Stephan Borg wrote:
> 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 > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "I believe that forgiving them [terrorists] is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting." - General "Storm'n" Norman Schwartzkopf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
