I believe Red Hat has Interactive Startup. If you ever have something
that 'hangs'. Simply at beginning of startup type 'I'. Then before
every service starts it asks you if you wish to start or not. Simply skip
the service that has the issue. In this case Sendmail. Then fix the
problem and restart the service.
Hopefully such information will not be very useful as you shouldnt have to
reboot your GNU\Linux box very often. ;)
Derek
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Nick Estes wrote:
> > Sounds like a dns problem, happens a lot with sendmail, just let it sit
> there for a while and it'll eventually move on in the bootup
> process. (5-10 minutes depending on how it's configured) Once it's up
> check your config, make sure dns is working, and also double check that
> sendmail can figure out it's correct hostname (if it can't, you can hard
> code it in the sendmail.cf file)
>
> --Nick
>
> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Michael J. Schweppe wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > After installation the computer re booted fine. After checking things
> > out and setting up eth0 and eth1 I re booted. During the start up of
> > starting this and that when I got to "Starting Sendmail..." the
> > computer just hangs with the blinking curser. I set security at
> > Medium and did nothing with Sendmail. I re booted again and the same
> > problem occurred again.
> >
> > My experience is just above novice in the clueless range :-)
> >
> > Short of starting over and reinstalling, which I really would like to
> > avoid, what can I do? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
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