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Re: Problems Booting

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From: mark stevens
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00
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I think you can also solve the problem by editing the /etc/hosts
file. Look at the redhat faq ot www.redhat.com

In article <6cih8i$o3l$1@europa.frii.com>, "DogMaI" <fitsnips@writeme.com> writes:
|> Thank You I will try to let it sit longer
|> Emarit Ranu wrote in message <6cghpb$3kic@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>...
|> >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.
|> >
|> >
|> >--
|> > -Emarit Ranu                     drranuDAMN@SPAMholly.ColoState.EDU
|> > Electrical Engineering,         All generalizations are bad.
|> > Colorado State University                  Who is John Galt?
|> > _._  __.  _____  _._.  __._
|> 
|> 
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From: stevensm@cs.colostate.edu (mark stevens)
Subject: Re: Problems Booting
Date: 1998/02/20
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