Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:35:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: John K <john@volvo.se> To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Name Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.990519123324.3289C-100000@nike.volvo.se> In-Reply-To: <37428426.7DB72458@ettnet.se>
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You can always press <CTRL+C> to stop sendmail from loading (when it stalls) if there is some conflict with your networking devices. br john On Wed, 19 May 1999, Thomas Widlundh wrote: > > First I am to Thank every of You who gave me an answer. > Now Greg, > I'm not shure what You are talking about. > Do You mean a name in the Internet like the name of my ISP, ettnet.se? > > I mean the name which comes up during boot, just before the login > prompt. > I'm to login to a machine with the name mydomain.my.etc. > > Erlier I had Caldera Base 1.1 on my HD. During installation I got this > question where I could > change the name my.mydomain.etc to what I wanted. I didn't know and > understand it at the time so > I typed tw. The result was a very slow boot. The machine stopped at > sendmail for a long while > and then continued. > I was told that that was because sendmail tried to find this name and > wasn't pleased with > my tiny "tw". It wanted a long name like this my.mydomain.etc with these > two periods. > Sendmail continued the boot after a time out. > I changed the name to a longer one, end sendmail was pleased and booted > up fast. > > In BSD i changed the name somewhere, can't recall where, and sendmail is > stopping like in Linux. > Then, after a minute or so, sendmail seems to time out and continue. > > Thomas > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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