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Date:      Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:22:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stephane Raimbault <stephane@cybersurf.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail error?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971026232156.12269M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01bce18e$71b7ae40$626ebace@stephane.cybersurf.net>

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On Sat, 25 Oct 1997, Stephane Raimbault wrote:

> Now that I have done this it seemed to work fine.  Then I attempted to run
> Pine and it didn't start.  I tried rebooting and when it was loading
> sendmail it would seem to freeze so I press ^C to continue the boot which it
> does.  Again Pine won't start.

Sendmail will hold up if your nameserver configuration is bad.  It's
probably trying to resovle itself.  Make an entry for yourself in
/etc/hosts:

10.0.0.1  		mybox 

and it should shut up. Pine is probably having the same problem.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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