From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 15:57:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:57:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11305 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17739; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:57:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:57:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dima Dorfman cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404094000.00908e90@mail.zwb.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Hi: > > I'm having trouble with sendmail. On boot, it blocks, and I don't know > why. It used to do this on my previous Linux system, but when I added a > reverse DNS mapping for '127.0.0.1', it was OK. I did that now, and it > still does it, and, now, I can't find the sendmail log file where it > records its boot/startup errors. It's still doing a DNS lookup. Make sure your machine's name is listed in /etc/hosts. You can hit Control-C to bypass. > When I try it from the command line, it won't exit until I 'kill' it, > usually, it's supposed to send a message! /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages depending on severity. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message