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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:47:11 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        lists@3bags.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Yikes, how can I get around this?
Message-ID:  <3E5A68AF.9060906@potentialtech.com>
References:  <009b01c2dc34$256cc290$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>

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Phillip Smith (mailing list) wrote:
> I'm having a whole world of trouble with sendmail and apache, where
> previously I've had none.
> 
> I added some new Mailman aliases to my /etc/aliases file and did 'make'.
> The process took a very long time. I restarted sendmail. The changes did
> not seem to take effect, so (stupidly) I remotely rebooted the server.
> 
> I noticed next, that apache wasn't starting up, wasn't an active
> process, etc. Neither was fetchmail.
> 
> I tried to start apache with apachectl start, but keep getting error
> messages about 
> 
> [Mon Feb 24 13:33:12 2003] [error] Cannot resolve host name xxx.xyz.com
> 
> I think that the primary name server I'm using is down. I'm not sure why
> it's not picking up the secondary information?
> 
> I've never had this problem before... any ideas on how to get apache
> running without checking for name resolution?

Put your hostname/IP in /etc/hosts

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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