Hi! > Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my FreeBSD 4.7 > stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the following > message: > > recovering vi editor sessions: > > After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot resolve > its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot sequence in a > normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list archives but there does > not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of behavior. I looked > through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any reference to this sort of > thing and I found nothing. > Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in fact, I > specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a buildworld.
Well, somehow sendmail still manages to (attempt to) get loaded. If you don't update sendmail during buildworld then it may be the version that got installed when you first installed FreeBSD. Is there a "sendmail_enable" line in /etc/rc.conf? What the error message tries to tell you is that your IP address cannot be resolved to DNS name. -- Toomas Aas | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Ambivalence may or may not be my problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
