From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 6:17:50 2002 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 6C98237B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from hughes-fe02.direcway.com (hughes-fe02.direcway.com [66.82.20.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB10643E6E for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 06:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmprice@direcway.com) Received: from jerusalem ([66.82.54.35]) by hughes-fe02.direcway.com (InterMail vK.4.04.00.00 201-232-137 license dcc4e84cb8fc01ca8f8654c982ec8526) with ESMTP id <20021029141415.BPCB14813.hughes-fe02@jerusalem>; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:14:15 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Weston M. Price" To: "Toomas Aas" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recovering vi editor sessions???? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:08:30 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200210291330.g9TDU6I05827@lv.raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <200210291330.g9TDU6I05827@lv.raad.tartu.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210290908.30477.wmprice@direcway.com> 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 I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is that = it=20 seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message. No, I= =20 specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well.=20 Weston On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:27 am, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > > =09Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my F= reeBSD > > 4.7 stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the > > following message: > > > > recovering vi editor sessions: > > > > After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot > > resolve its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot > > sequence in a normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list arch= ives > > but there does not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of > > behavior. I looked through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any > > reference to this sort of thing and I found nothing. > > =09Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in = fact, > > I specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a > > buildworld. > > Well, somehow sendmail still manages to (attempt to) get loaded. If you > don't update sendmail during buildworld then it may be the version that > got installed when you first installed FreeBSD. > > Is there a "sendmail_enable" line in /etc/rc.conf? > > What the error message tries to tell you is that your IP address cannot > be resolved to DNS name. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message