From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 14:14: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.toad.net (hermes.toad.net [162.33.130.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9780D37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core19d231.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.189.231]) by hermes.toad.net (8.11.2/8.11.0) with SMTP id f89LDk607589; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:13:51 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 10 Sep 2001 17:11:15 -0500 To: Fred Condo Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootup freeze when trying to start sendmail References: <878zfmu7oj.fsf@yahoo.com> <20010909121949.A4050@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> From: Jeremy Date: 10 Sep 2001 17:11:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20010909121949.A4050@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Message-ID: <871yleu264.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Fred Condo writes: > 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. Okay. This gives me ideas of where to look around and fix my problem. Thanks for the help! Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message