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Re: Sendmail timeout

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Hardin)
Tue Dec 1 17:06:08 1998

Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:56:24 -0800 (PST)
From: "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@wolfenet.com>
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To state that a little more clearly,

make sure your system name appears in your /etc/hosts file.

On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Kenneth Ho wrote:
>
> Sendmail was probably trying to figure out its hostname. Try add an
> entry to your DNS record. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> When starting my linux machine using RH5.2, at startup it hangs on:
> starting Sendmail:
> 
> for a minute or more. Does anyone know what may be happening?

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