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[Dave Ashby]

Elton Woo wrote:

>On September 27, 2003 08:08 pm, Dave Ashby <Dave Ashby 
><dave.ashby at 1993.usna.com>> wrote:
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>>Make sure the first line in your /etc/hosts file is 127.0.0.1 and your
>>box name (technically FQN and then nickname). If you have other entries
>>above it, sendmail will hang during boot.
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>My /etc/hosts file:
># Do not remove the following line, or various programs
># that require network functionality will fail.
>127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
>127.0.0.1	dhcp-133-74		localhost
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>Sendmail doesn't hang, it just takes so bloody looong! I've just
>disabled it from startup services, and the boot process is much,
>MUCH quicker!!
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Sorry if my misspeak confused you - Sendmail should eventually recover 
and move on, it just takes a while. I had similar observable until I 
moved my localhost entry from last line of /etc/hosts to first line. It 
looks like this now:

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
 
127.0.0.1       Seminole.cxm    Seminole
192.168.1.101   Seminole        Seminole

I'm thinking the double entry for 127.0.0.1 is what is hanging you up.
-dave


>>>Gripe 2: smartd ... *really*???  I thought it caused the *two* kernel
>>>oopses because I left a diskette in the ls-120 (/dev/hdc) drive.
>>>It also complains of read errors on the *empty* drive, as well as the
>>>other _empty_ DVD (/dev/hdd) and CDRW (/dev/hdc) drives.
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>>>The "three-finger salute" doesn't help, only hitting the reset button
>>>does... :-(
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>>I get this too, but doesn't hang startup. I've had issues in the past
>>with kudzu hanging my startup - maybe disable kudzu and try again??
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>The hang was result of the oopses. However, I get your point.
>Once Fedora is installed, I don't really need kudzu, since I don't do
>hardware changes ( ...at the most, probably the addition of a new
>peripheral once a year or so... ).
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>I've just disabled kudzu, so that ought to shorten boot time even
>more. Thanks!
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>Elton ;-)
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