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Date:      Sun, 5 Apr 1998 15:57:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dima Dorfman <webmaster@zwb.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980405155626.17571e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980404094000.00908e90@mail.zwb.net>

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On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Dima Dorfman wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> I'm having trouble with sendmail.  On boot, it blocks, and I don't know
> why.  It used to do this on my previous Linux system, but when I added a
> reverse DNS mapping for '127.0.0.1', it was OK.  I did that now, and it
> still does it, and, now, I can't find the sendmail log file where it
> records its boot/startup errors.

It's still doing a DNS lookup.  Make sure your machine's name is listed in
/etc/hosts.  You can hit Control-C to bypass.

> When I try it from the command line, it won't exit until I 'kill' it,
> usually, it's supposed to send a message!

/var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages depending on severity.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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