Sendmail ... "locking up" ... are you sure its not timing out. This is a common problem. Try letting it sit for a few minutes and see if sendmail times out and the boot sequence proceeds. One thing you can try is changing the permissions on the sendmail startup run control file /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail. If its send to not execute (chmod -x) then slackware won't start sendmail. But that's probably not what you want :) This problem (sendmail delay) is sometimes due to there being no localhost defined in the /etc/hosts file. Check yours and make sure you have in there: 127.0.0.1 localhost -- Doug
