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#! rnews 1392 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!news.eli.net!news.utw.com!news From: "Chris Taylor" <cstaylor@dawtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Sendmail not working Date: 8 Jul 1997 22:49:13 GMT Organization: UTW.COM News Server Lines: 14 Message-ID: <01bc8bf1$1a842ba0$64d91dce@phishhead> NNTP-Posting-Host: phishhead.dawtech.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44130 I just finished installing FreeBSD on a machine connected to a LAN. The host name for the machine is as yet not set up on DNS. Before I had all the TCP/IP networking setup properly, sendmail loaded with no trouble and I could run Pine. Once I setup the default gateway and the other networking information in rc.conf then Pine ceases to work and sendmail hangs during a reboot until it eventually times out and the boot finishes. My first concern is that for some reason, this latest FreeBSD install didn't setup all of the networking stuff automagically like it has for me in the past. Did I miss something? Secondly, what do I need to setup so the sendmail will work? What is causing it to hang when the network is working and to work fine when the network is not working? --Chris www.christaylor.com