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Re: sendmail hangs and linuxconf messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Thu Dec 3 08:59:02 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 07:54:29 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
To: Mathias Bjorkman <jackolantern_26@hotmail.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19981203071759.1577.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Mathias Bjorkman wrote:
>Thanks for the help with the mouse under X.. it worked magic for me.
>
>I have another problem, on some computers it stops at sendmail
>and hangs there so i have no other choice then reinstalling, this
>did happen after i changed the hostname i think, but that shouldn't
>have anything to do with it????
>and i even get weired messages when detecting my network card
>something about not finding LinuxConf files, i can get a better message
>description if necissary, if anyone knows whta might be wrong please
>let me know
>
this comes up often enough perhaps we could have it added to the FAQ if
it's not already there...
sendmail will hang for about 5 minutes here (perhaps longer - it seems
longer) and has happened to me many MANY times. What happens is it tries
to do a DNS lookup on the NEW hostname - and as typically the network
connection is not active at this point it sits and waits for the DNS
request to time out ...
the solution is not to re-install. you can either be really REALLY
patient (go watch a movie), or boot into single user mode (much discussion
of this has already taken place) and go about changing the hostname,
/etc/hosts or any number of other files....
hope this helps
-dave
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