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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos