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RE: Sendmail timeout

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pawan Singh)
Tue Dec 1 17:09:45 1998

From: Pawan Singh <psingh@turnstonesystems.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:07:07 -0800 
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And my system name does appear in the /etc/hosts file. The file looks like
this:
127.0.0.1    localhost
192.168.0.1   cosmo


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Pawan Singh
Turnstone Systems, Inc.
Phone: 650-404-0213
Email: psingh@turnstonesystems.com


-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Hardin [mailto:jhardin@wolfenet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 1:56 PM
To: Redhat List
Subject: Re: Sendmail timeout



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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