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?)