shutting down interface eth0: system hangs
hello world,
i switched my hdd from an intel machine to an athlon machine, on bootup linux detected all the new hardware in the athlon machine and configured it, somehow it could not configure the network card.
the n/w card in the old machine was a 3com and the one in the new one is a netgear. earlier the system would lock up at the sendmail startup, i checked the loopback addr. and it seemed fine, so i had to disable sendmail at startup. i disabled this by renaming sendmail bcoz i could not find the proper init script which disabled sendmail. I am using redhat 9 and i couldn't find any of the standard named files in the rc directory.
now the problem is my machine does not shut down properly, it just hangs at "shutting down interface eth0: "
can anybody help? is it because i have disabled sendmail in an incorrect manner?
any help appreciated.
cheers,
anup.
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