On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:24:05AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > That's the default behavior of DHCP in Red Hat 8.0. It is > probably best to override that with a set hostname when you use > DHCP. However, I wasn't aware that changing hostnames like that > would cause so many problems for those services. I need to take > a closer look at this on my system.
I suspect name resolution issues. Sendmail has been notorious for locking up the booting process. If the system is named localhost, name resolution should not fail. I have seen switching hostnames on systems relying on DHCP, but never thought much about why and when that happens. Does the hostname change because a hostname is not set in /etc/sysconfig/network? -Vince