FC5 boot process, sendmail and sm_client???

[Paul Howarth]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
>> Deepak Shrestha schrieb:
>>
>> > I noticed that if the network card is set to automatic configuration
>> >     (obtain everything IP address, DNS etc from modem router then boot
>> > process is smooth. But I give static IP address to my computer then
>> > that's the time sendmail and sm_client takes forever to start. Why is
>> > that so? can somebody guide me? I need to use static IP in my computer
>> > for hosting webpage inside the lan.
>>
>> Sendmail needs a valid IP <--> FQDN mapping in /etc/hosts. So make sure
>> you have a line like
>>
>> 1.2.3.4     mail.domain.tld     mail
>>
>> in /etc/hosts. Be aware that Sendmail takes the first dotted hostname as
>> its own.
>>
>> Alexander
> 
> I have following in my /etc/hosts
> ===========
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 192.168.1.2     webcomp
> ===========

Is that the entire contents of the file? If so, you removed/edited the 
line starting 127.0.0.1 that the preceding commented lines tell you not 
to remove...

Paul.