[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Brent Geach]

in /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       shadow.prv.uk.itouchnet.net shadow localhost localhost.localdomain

where shadow is my machine name, prv.uk.itouchnet.net is my domainn
That should sort sendmail and lpd out for you

Brent

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> That is exactly the problem - and yup - Red Hat 7.1 :o) What is the hosts
> file meant to look like? I think I only changed /etc/hosts - do I need to
> change /etc/hostname too? Or does sendmail have it's own configuration that
> needs to be run?
> 
> I did manage to get back in using the "Interactive startup" and just turning
> sendmail off when it asked me. I can't be bothered waiting five minutes for
> a timeout! Looks like it's fixable at least, but what needs to be changed to
> get it right again?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Simon
> http://www.rendermania.com/
> UIN 11123737
> 
> > There is a problem in your /etc/hosts file, it's not resolving the
> hostname correctly.
> > This would cause lpd to not start and make sendmail take a while to try
> start on bootup. But it wont make the machine totally unbootable, just take
> a little while to get past sendmail.
> > I found that linuxconf had this problem. netcfg also made a lovelly mess
> of my /etc/hosts file on redhat 7.1, I tend to try steer clear of these as
> they have caused me lots headaches in the past, especially when I tried to
> let linuxconf configure apache for me!
> >
> > Brent
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:31:15AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > Ok I think I've just made a small mistake - hopefully one that can be
> solved
> > > the Linux way - ie not reinstalling the Operating system. I needed to
> change
> > > the name of my computer for some software that needs a host for its
> license,
> > > so I thought this would be fairly simple - changed it in linuxconf...and
> > > then something else told me to change it in /etc/hosts which I did.
> > >
> > > However it looks like there are a few other things I should have done.
> At
> > > the moment it halts at starting up the sendmail daemon just after the
> lpd
> > > daemon (which is no problem if that doesn't start - hardly as critical).
> > >
> > > Is there any way around this? Is there some way of dropping to a lower
> init
> > > level so these things don't get started and I can get back in? And what
> do I
> > > need to change to get things working again. I haven't really messed
> around
> > > with these sorts of things so it should be an interesting learning
> > > experience.
> > >
> > > Any pointers on where to start and get back going again? Luckily it is
> on
> > > seperate partitions so I could reinstall if I absolutely had to - but I
> > > would obviously prefer not too.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Simon
> > > http://www.rendermania.com/
> > > UIN 11123737
> > >
> 
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