'Starting sendmail' hangs
 

While booting up Redhat, my system hangs for about five minutes at sendmail:


Loading lpd: [OK]
Loading sendmail:


I remember the last thing I did before seeing this 'hang' was trying to get remote printing to work.

Is this something with sendmail or lpd?

Anyone know what I can do to fix it?

Thanks,

Robert Liguori

i got that to wehn i installed, i just waited till redhat booted up and then i configured it to not start sendmail.

Sounds like it can't find your hostname

What version of RedHat do you have?
Oh my RH9 system, it did that too, I just went to /etc/mail/ and edited the "local-host-names" file and added in my hostname (technologyx)

I have Redhat 9.

What should the entry look like?

my system is called 'server', so I put that in the file, it didn't fix my problem.

Need I add the IP address?

Thanks.

Did you set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network

It saids HOSTNAME= localhost.localdomain.

My system is 'server'

How should I update HOSTNAME?

Replace localhost.localdomain with server.

So the line in /etc/sysconfig/network should look like

Not working.
 

That didn't work either.

Any more ideas?

try running:

sendmail -bd

as root. Then check if it is running ok with

ps -A | grep sendmail

If it's there simply enter:

sendmail

to use the program

Re: Not working.
 

Apparently my way didn't work either on mine :/