From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 12:19:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-64-163-110-180.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [64.163.110.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F262637B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f89JJoZ04552; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:19:49 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: Jeremy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootup freeze when trying to start sendmail Message-ID: <20010909121949.A4050@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> References: <878zfmu7oj.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <878zfmu7oj.fsf@yahoo.com>; from thinker5555@yahoo.com on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:12:12PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:12:12PM -0500, Jeremy wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to get ppp working, so I followed the examples set out by the > Handbook, the FAQ, and also a place called "FreeBSD Cheat Sheets". In doing > so, I set the sendmail daemon to start up when I boot. Unfortunately I > must've had my mind elsewhere because I don't currently have sendmail > installed (as far as I know) and so when it gets to trying to start up > sendmail, the system freezes. What can I do to remedy this problem? I've > tried to mount my FreeBSD / from Linux in order to change my rc.conf to fix > the problem, but unfortunately I've found it impossible to do so. (I'm still > very new at all of this) By default, you do have sendmail, unless you specifcally disable it in /etc/rc.conf. The hang is likely due to sendmail being unable to look up its hostname. It will eventually time out. Make sure your hostname is listed properly in /etc/hosts, or turn sendmail off if you don't need it running as a daemon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message