Re: [Nolug] Localhost name problem

From: Scott Harney <scotth_at_scottharney.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:05:47 -0500
Message-ID: <20020910120547.A36415@attitude.local.lan>

Before recommending more radical methods of repair, have you
tried hitting "ctrl+C" during the bootup when it gets to
the "starting sendmail" part? This works on debian, but I don't know
about other distro's

How long have you waited for sendmail to quit churing? It might be
that you haven't waited long enough.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:15:16PM -0400, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> In getting a friend's computer to connect with his ISP, I inadvertently caused "netmail@att.net" to be inserted as localhost. I found it in sendmail.conf (which I don't even think I'm using since the machine is not networked other than using att.net) and changed it to "localhost." Now I can't get it to boot (always stops and sendmail). I have tried running a repair installation from the CD. I can't get it to boot from a floppy except for installtion purposes. I don't want to damage his data files. What can I do?
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