[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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