Bug 9938

Summary: sendmail hangs on boot under certain circumstances
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Volker Wysk <volker.wysk>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Description Volker Wysk 2000-03-03 19:32:42 UTC
Hi.

When the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network gets set a name in my
local network ("volker", ip 192.168.1.1), sendmail hangs when you do
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start", making the whole system unbootable.
When I set the name to "localhost", it works. The network does not have
a subnet name.

bye

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-03-04 18:30:59 UTC
The hostname should be a FQDN and you also need it resolvable by the resolver
(usually you need it defined in /etc/hosts or you have to have /etc/resolv.conf
correctly configured)