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Master of Reality:
sendmail wont start. Thats it. It says 'starting sendmail:' but just sits there like that and never gives and error or aborts. It used to work, i dont believe i changed anything involved with sendmail except maybe if it is trying to go out to the web... My firewalll might be stopping it, could that be the problem?

voidmain:
I suppose if you are trying to start Sendmail on the same box you have ipchains/iptables configured to block port 25 (even for localhost traffic) and depending on the ipchains/iptables options it could be causing Senmail to try infinitely to bind to port 25 but I haven't tested to see if that could really happen. I would think it should at least time out of give you an error about not being able to bind to port 25.  I suspect there are other issues though.  Are you sure there are no other sendmail processes running (ps auxwww | grep mail)?  Of course that should not also not cause a hang.

Open a second shell window and type "tail -f /var/log/messages" then in the first shell try and start Sendmail (/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start).  See if any messages are being sent to the messages file.  You also might want to watch the "/var/log/maillog" file for any messages there. You can also try starting sendmail directly with debugging parameters.

beltorak0:
i have problems with my sendmail also;

just a short while ago, cox (cable modem provider) must have switched it's dhcpc server release info, because it no longer returns my psuedo fqdn when i announce that my host is "dAn" (it used to spit back "dAn.hr.cox.net").... sendmail tries for a minute and a half (sometimes longer) to resolve my hostname "dAn" but to no avail.... let it run and check your logs.

I have since stopped the sendmail daemons from executing at startup because I am too lazy to use my ip as my hostname or register a valid one.... or figure out how to get sendmail to stop checking this.... anyway.

if this helps you, let me know.

-t.

Master of Reality:
/var/log/maillog:

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how do i set a fully qualified hostname?
[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

voidmain:
What's your /etc/hosts look like?  Did you change it? And what is your local host name set to (output from "hostname" command)?

[ September 06, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

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