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Re: sendmail pausing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sat Nov 23 17:59:15 1996

Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:56:31 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961123223922.0069d43c@email.psu.edu>
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K. Harrison Liang writes:
 >        After installing RedHat/Intel 4.0,  "sendmail" always pauses for a
 > minute or so every time my Linux starts up.  I'm not connected to the net.
 > Is this a bug in 4.0 or is because "sendmail" doesn't understand my "localhost".
 > If it's the latter, does anyone know how to disable "sendmail" (by changing
 > the run-level??)?  Thanks in advance. . .
 > 

I don't think you really want to disable sendmail, do you. Just try
making sure that /etc/HOSTNAME has your hostname and
/etc/sysconfig/network has the line: HOSTNAME=XXXXXXXXX

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