[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Brent Geach]

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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