Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Morgan wrote: On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course. If you only want to deliver mail locally, and never consider the network at all, /usr/libexec/mail.local will do that for you. Do I need to somehow specify this as my MTA instead of sendmail or is it already us

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
On 8/18/05, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in the > DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mail for > set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly. > > If you are only rela

Re: sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Morgan wrote: When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates that it's what is responsible. Indeed. Looking into the is

sendmail stalling during boot

2005-08-18 Thread Simon Morgan
When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates that it's what is responsible. Looking into the issue I've seen a number of people