[CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

[Bob Beers]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry <Larry.Kemp at usmetrotel.com> wrote:
> I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance.


During the boot sequence there is a point at which you can enter
 an "I" to begin "Interactive" mode.  From there, you can pick and
 choose which services/daemons to turn on.

HTH,

-Bob Beers