[NBLUG/talk] Setting up RH 9

[Mark Street]

You are missing a fully qualified hostname....  this is an example of the 
famous sendmail hanging boot.

Check out /etc/hosts and make sure you have an entry for the machine's name 
there.  What Red Hat does to an empty hosts file it will place the hostname 
in front of the localhost entry like so

127.0.0.1		goob	localhost.localdomain	localhost

This prevents the hanging boot until you place an entry for goob.... or 
configure DNS.....

On Friday 03 October 2003 12:15, Todd Cary wrote:
> I have installed RH 9 on a spare box and all is working fine, for example:
>
> HTTP
> Samba
> FTP
> Ximian (In and Out)
>
> But here is the problem: when I setup hosts, sendmail and sm-client
> takes takes about 60+ seconds per to start during a boot/reboot.
>
> What may I have missed?

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