At startup, you will see a message that say Press I to run in interactive mode, there you can reject starting sendmail when you are prompted.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 10:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz &lt;<a href="mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com">
rgm@htt-consult.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am building a new server. &nbsp;It will be a temporary firewall of sorts.
<br><br>I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to set it<br>up in the target networks, but now....<br><br>The system hangs trying to start sendmail. &nbsp;I was thinking hard about<br>disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal functions, so
<br>did not. &nbsp;yet.<br><br>So is there someway to get the system working so I can change something<br>like disable sendmail?<br><br>The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. &nbsp;In fact the kybd/monitor<br>require a special temp setup. &nbsp;Perhaps I can edit the kernel line in
<br>grub to disable something?<br><br>If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that does<br>support cdrom. &nbsp;That is the way I did the initial harddrive install.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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