[CentOS] boot hangs on trying to start sendmail

Thu Dec 27 15:26:22 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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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