[CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail
Joshua Gimer
jgimer at gmail.com
Thu Dec 27 17:40:06 UTC 2007
Make sure that the system has an entry for itself in /etc/hosts. This
will allow the system to boot up even if DNS is unavailable.
Josh
On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Ed Donahue wrote:
>> 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.
> Now this is something to add to my Linux support/admin notes.
>
> THANKS!
>>
>> On Dec 27, 2007 10:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz < rgm at htt-consult.com <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com
>> >> 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?
>>
>> The system has no cdrom, diskette, etc. In fact the kybd/monitor
>> require a special temp setup. Perhaps I can edit the kernel
>> line in
>> grub to disable something?
>>
>> If necessary, I can pull the drive and put it in a system that
>> does
>> support cdrom. That is the way I did the initial harddrive
>> install.
>>
>>
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