Re: Problems Booting

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From: Emarit Ranu
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:00

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DogMaI (fitsnips@writeme.com) wrote:
: Was booting  just fine then I shut down my Red Hat 4.2 and now when I try to
: boot it hangs on send mail.  Anyone know whats up?

	Sendmail likes to resolve various hostnames upon startup.  If your
	machine does not have an active DNS to talk with, sendmail will hang
	for a few minutes until the queries timeout.  That's one possible cause.


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From: drranu@holly.ColoState.EDU (Emarit Ranu)
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Date: 1998/02/19
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