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Re: LOST LOCAL HOST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (duane)
Thu Oct 29 15:23:40 1998
Reply-To: "duane" <dcottle@ezy.net>
From: "duane" <dcottle@ezy.net>
To: <redhat-digest@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 14:59:57 -0500
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Garner <sgarner@expio.co.nz>
To: duane <dcottle@ezy.net>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: LOST LOCAL HOST
>Hey,
>
>The exact same thing happened to me -- except I didn't leave SMB long
>enough to get a message about what the problem was.
>
>I managed to telnet in and kill SMBd. I then uninstalled SMB and sendmail
>so that it wouldn't happen again.
>
>If anyone knows a solution for this, I'd be grateful, since I do actually
>need
>SMB and sendmail...
>
>
>
>Simon Garner
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: duane [mailto:dcottle@ezy.net]
>Sent: Friday, 30 October 1998 8:03 AM
>To: redhat-digest@redhat.com
>Subject: LOST LOCAL HOST
>
>
>A novice of a few months, this morning I attempted to configure PINE on RH
>5.0.
>
>In my tinkering, I rebooted to find the boot stuck for 5 minutes at
>"Starting sendmail."
>Eventually a couple other daemons started until boot got to SMBd, where was
>revealed to me, "Cannot determine local host name. Use ServerName to set it
>manually" and where the box even now awaits my direction, for which I'm at
a
>loss.
>
>I've loaded the rescue kernel but don't know where to begin. Any help from
>the list will put me back on my migration a grateful RHatter.
>
>duane@thecottles.net
>
>
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