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Re: sendmail hangs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William J. Smith)
Thu Oct 31 18:01:09 1996

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:51:22 -0500
From: "William J. Smith" <wjs@wang.com>
To: davecook@mail.utexas.edu
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
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	(dcook@utexas.edu)
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> > I have just recently purchased Red Hat 4.0 and installed on my home
> > machine.  Everything works pretty good execpt for one thing-- sendmail
> > hangs on boot-up!  Has anyone experienced this problem?  If so, I'd really
> > appreciate your suggestion and/or fix.  Thanks!  
> 
> Try renaming /sbin/request-route.  However, though I've done that, my
> sendmail hung for a few minutes on my last reboot.  So something else
> could be causing the problem.

  Use netcfg in control-panel and set your host name and domain name.
For example,

host name -> mypc.home.com
domain    -> home.com

Worked for me.


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