[CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

Thu Dec 27 17:40:06 UTC 2007
Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com>

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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