sendmail hangs at boot time

[Erin Fortenberry]

Try adding your FDQN/IP to your /etc/hosts file.

-Erin

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of manish jain
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 8:26 AM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: sendmail hangs at boot time
> 
>  
>   Hi,
>    
>   I recently replaced sendmail with qmail on my freebsd 6.0 
> system, and now tried to revert to sendmail today. I enabled 
> sendmail in rc.conf, made the mailer.conf entries point back 
> to sendmail and deleted aliases.db. Now the system hangs at 
> boot time with the message "creating aliases.db" from the 
> script /etc/rc.d/sendmail. It apparantly hangs becauses the 
> newaliases command does not return. Can anyone please tell me 
> how I should get around this and correctly re-enable sendmail ?
>    
>   Thank you
>   Manish Jain
>    
> 
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