Re: Sendmail hangs at startup
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 21:52, Steve Mayer wrote:
> > Riccardo,
> >
> > Try adding your local machines hostname and IP address in here. Not
> > just the localhost entry. Sendmail is hanging because it cannot
> > resolve your hostname.
> >
>
> I am not in a local network, my machine is a laptop and I access
> internet using the wireless lan of the university trough a dhcp server,
> so I don't really know what else to add in /etc/hosts
> I have tried also to add an '&' in the /etc/init.d/sendmail script, but
> it doesn't work, and I get an error message sayng that the syntax of the
> script is not correct.
> Btw, I have the same problem even using exim instead of sendmail.
> Bye,
> Riccardo
I think sendmail is missing a DNS ... what is your /etc/resolv.conf
saying?
Oliver
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