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Date:      Tue, 19 Feb 2002 17:43:54 -0800
From:      Johnson David <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Shawn Halloran <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com>, freebsd-newbie <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Boot sequence hangs
Message-ID:  <20020220014400.3E60C37B400@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <OE743j0hzF8S8E62Tkx00000406@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE743j0hzF8S8E62Tkx00000406@hotmail.com>

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On Tuesday 19 February 2002 05:19 pm, Shawn Halloran wrote:
> "Starting standard daemons: inted cron sshd usbd sendmail"
>
> The boot process hangs at this point for almost five minutes

This has happened to me before. As I recall, it was due to sendmail trying to 
qualify an unqualifiable host name. Your host needs a FQDN (fully qualified 
domain name). Either give your host a full name, or disable sendmail.

The command "hostname" will tell you the full host name of your machine. If 
it's just a simple one word name like "mymachine", then sendmail will 
grumble. You need something on the order of "mymachine.my.domain".

If you're on a network, your sysadmin will tell you your full host name. If 
you're the sysadmin, start boning up on hostname by reading the hostname 
manpage in section 7 (type "man 7 hostname").

David

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