Tony,
Thanks to your tips, we have corrected the problem.
The hosts file trick did not do it.
What we ended up doing was to totally uninstall sendmail and re-install - but using sendmail 8.12.8 from the redhat website.
The configuration files are different enough and everything seems to be working now.
Thank you everyone for chipping in with your suggestions.
-Arthur.
At 04:54 PM 3/11/2003 +1000, you wrote:
On Mon Mar 10 2003 at 23:20, Arthur Chong wrote:
> About sm-client. We checked our /etc/hosts and we are very sure > we have this down correctly. Since it is an internal private network for > now, we set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and in /etc/hosts. > A ping and hostname shows that the host name is set. Gateway is > too, we can ping the outside world.... > > sm-client still freezes on startup. > > Any ideas ?
sendmail *must* be able to resolve its own hostname to a local IP address.
So in /etc/hosts do the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost hostname.domain.net hostname
That is, force resolution of the fqdn to 127.0.0.1
Otherwise, what does it say in /var/log/maillog ?
> -Arthur
Cheers Tony
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