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Re: sendmail hangs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Bartorillo)
Thu Oct 31 18:48:47 1996

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:17:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Drew Bartorillo <drew@erols.com>
Reply-To: Andrew Bartorillo <drewbart@erols.com>
To: Jason Harrell <JASON@basenet.net>
cc: Red Hat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961031162624.238A-100000@othello>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com


> 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!  
> 

I had the same problem because the installation did not insert my local
host name in the /etc/sysconfig/network file. This file should look like
this (with YOUR local host name:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=drewbart.erols.com

--Drew--


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