[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Simon Bunker]

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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