From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 10:47:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73A5937B405 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686D443F85 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 10:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1OIlBrX009779; Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:47:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E5A68AF.9060906@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:47:11 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lists@3bags.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yikes, how can I get around this? References: <009b01c2dc34$256cc290$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Phillip Smith (mailing list) wrote: > I'm having a whole world of trouble with sendmail and apache, where > previously I've had none. > > I added some new Mailman aliases to my /etc/aliases file and did 'make'. > The process took a very long time. I restarted sendmail. The changes did > not seem to take effect, so (stupidly) I remotely rebooted the server. > > I noticed next, that apache wasn't starting up, wasn't an active > process, etc. Neither was fetchmail. > > I tried to start apache with apachectl start, but keep getting error > messages about > > [Mon Feb 24 13:33:12 2003] [error] Cannot resolve host name xxx.xyz.com > > I think that the primary name server I'm using is down. I'm not sure why > it's not picking up the secondary information? > > I've never had this problem before... any ideas on how to get apache > running without checking for name resolution? Put your hostname/IP in /etc/hosts -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message