sendmail
 

Hi,

I installed RH9 a couple of days ago on my laptom and i am still experiencing some problems...

First, it didn't support my Ethernet Card, so I had to get the drivers from BroadBand to make internet work... after rebooting, when logging to gnome i get an error message 'unknown host: x1-600... add this host to localhosts' and everything is very very slow... so I added this string to localhost in Network settings... but next time I boot, computer hangs whilie initializing sendmail... i went in the rescue mode and removed this service, so i can now boot and ask this question :) : is sendmail important? how can I make it run?

Thank you

Sendmail isn't important unless your going to be running a mail server.

Try adding ".localdomain" versions of each host name in your /etc/hosts file.
BEFORE
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.1 firewall
192.168.1.102 bobby

AFTER
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.1 firewall.localdomain firewall
192.168.1.102 bobby.localdomain bobby

This worked for me. Sendmail starts very quickly now (on RedHat 8 and 9 systems).