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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:08:30 -0500
From:      "Weston M. Price" <wmprice@direcway.com>
To:        "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: recovering vi editor sessions????
Message-ID:  <200210290908.30477.wmprice@direcway.com>
In-Reply-To: <200210291330.g9TDU6I05827@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
References:  <200210291330.g9TDU6I05827@lv.raad.tartu.ee>

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I understand the sendmail error message, what i don't understand is that =
it=20
seems to be preceeded by the recovering vi editor sessions message. No, I=
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specifically disabled sendmail in rc.conf as well.=20

Weston

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:27 am, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > =09Recently I have noticed some strange behavior when booting up my F=
reeBSD
> > 4.7 stable system. At the very end of the boot sequence I get the
> > following message:
> >
> > recovering vi editor sessions:
> >
> > After a few moments the sytem suddely informs me that sendmail cannot
> > resolve its hostname. I hit Ctrl-C and the system completes the boot
> > sequence in a normal fashion. I tried searching the mailing list arch=
ives
> > but there does not appear to be any sort of reference to this type of
> > behavior. I looked through the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for any
> > reference to this sort of thing and I found nothing.
> > =09Strangely enough, I do not have sendmail enabled on my system, in =
fact,
> > I specifically inform the system not to build sendmail when I do a
> > buildworld.
>
> Well, somehow sendmail still manages to (attempt to) get loaded. If you
> don't update sendmail during buildworld then it may be the version that
> got installed when you first installed FreeBSD.
>
> Is there a "sendmail_enable" line in /etc/rc.conf?
>
> What the error message tries to tell you is that your IP address cannot
> be resolved to DNS name.


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