[ale] Networkin and Sendmail

[Steven A. DuChene]

> On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Steven A. Duchene wrote:
> 
> > 
> >         What kind of error messages do you get when sendmail tries to start?
> > 	Take the time to try and start it by hand so we can help you out.
> > 	Can you telnet to port 25?
> 
Charlie replied:
> No error message is echoed back it just hangs the machine!  I can' ^Z, shutdown
> the machine, goto a virtual terminal.  Nothing!  I tried to use the network
> last night, and I'm back to the same problem with my networking stuff.
> It will hang the machine too.  Telnet hung it in X, and my mouse was just stuck
> 
	Are you sure this is not just your Xserver locking up? Do you have another
	way to access your machine besides being on the console? Like dialing in
	through a modem or connecting via the serial port/network? A hung Xserver
	acts a lot like the whole machine being hung but it is still running under
	the hung graphics. Are you still getting drive accesses once in a while
	while it is hung? 

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