*** Boot-up Stops at "SENDMAIL:"

[IVIr BigTime]

During the bootup of Linux 7.1 Where everything initializes and the "OK" is in green it stops at the "sendmail" I dont know what i need to configure or disable so my boot up will continue correctly. I do the "Interactive" setup that asks me if I want to load each of the things and that works fine if I say NO to the sendmail part, it then loads fine and I can run the Operatng System with no problems. How do I fix this or configure it to boot-up correctly?

Thanks Ahead of Time,
Chris

[marvin]

By Linux 7.1, do you mean redhat 7.1? The following commands might not apply to other distros.

Do you need to have sendmail running? Otherwise you could just disable it. su to root and type

chkconfig sendmail off

This will disable sendmail from starting at boot. Type man chkconfig for more info.

If you need to have sendmail running or are curious about what the problem might be you have to post the error messages you get.

Try to start sendmail manually after you have booted up the computer. To start sendmail, type

service sendmail start

or

/etc/init.d/sendmail start

(You must be root to do this)

Look in /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog for error messages.

[IVIr BigTime]

yes redhat 7.1