-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- "D. W. Wieboldt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running > just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one > so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what > I should be looking for? Aah. OK, here's the deal. Sendmail is not hanging. It is trying to do a local DNS lookup. Since you probably aren't connected to the 'net 24/7, it spends a couple of minutes timing out. This happens to me a lot. You have two options: put your hostname and IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't need to do a DNS lookup. The second I don't remember how to do, but I think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files are very very ugly). LPRng does this too, I note, but it isn't nearly as easy to fix. - -- Graham Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME OK, PGP preferred from stddisclaim import footer pgp_fingerprint = "E9 B7 5F A0 F8 88 9E 1E 7C 62 D9 88 E1 03 29 5B" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM9qMiSqNPSINiVE5AQHa/gQAqv8fsM7fJgQmbZOSDCSvWuul+wpHqUTM HZvRMwfRZIvsrgFsSKz6e0YgF2Djnslgx+FUn63+wF2YeUhL4oR6JW+cZC9B4KGh ZTWZi/MMZxXRjhDiFFVYiTfVatxfAeox0cpkhZTLcl13p8c/DIf8bW1iUT4e3n1d MeY1qq0N9p0= =4dIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
