On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry <Larry.Kemp at usmetrotel.com>wrote: > I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and > a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the > pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it > is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make > the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI > so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance. > > Larry Kemp > Network Engineer > U.S. Metropolitan Telecom, LLC > _______________________________________________ > If your having network apps hang, I would take a look at your /etc/hosts file and make sure it is correct. I've had an issue in the past with sendmail hanging during boot and an incorrect /etc/hosts file was the cause. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccarrms at gmail.com mccarrms at clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091025/f72cf73a/attachment-0005.html>