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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Stephane Raimbault <stephane@cybersurf.net>
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Subject: Re: sendmail error?
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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