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Re: sendmail hangs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Nolan)
Thu Oct 31 20:01:44 1996

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:59:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Christopher Nolan <cnolan@sbaeweb2.fullerton.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610312251.RAA00342@skiloaf.wang.com>
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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.


This is exactly what I had to do after I setup my machine for the first
time.

Chris


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