[CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
Christopher Chan
christopher at ias.com.hk
Thu Dec 27 15:16:30 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am building a new server. It will be a temporary firewall of sorts.
>
> I am well into the config, made a lot of changes; almost ready to set it
> up in the target networks, but now....
>
> The system hangs trying to start sendmail. I was thinking hard about
> disabling sendmail, but thought I needed it for internal functions, so
> did not. yet.
>
> So is there someway to get the system working so I can change something
> like disable sendmail?
sendmail is waiting for dns resolution of its hostname/name. Fix that
and it will not 'hang'. Or just wait for the dns queries to timeout
(could take a while...i cannot remember...5 mins?)
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