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From: John K <john@volvo.se>
To: Thomas Widlundh <tw@ettnet.se>
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Subject: Re: Name
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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
> 
> 
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