On Mon Mar 10 2003 at 23:20, Arthur Chong wrote: > About sm-client. We checked our /etc/hosts and we are very sure > we have this down correctly. Since it is an internal private network for > now, we set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and in /etc/hosts. > A ping and hostname shows that the host name is set. Gateway is > too, we can ping the outside world.... > > sm-client still freezes on startup. > > Any ideas ? sendmail *must* be able to resolve its own hostname to a local IP address. So in /etc/hosts do the following: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost hostname.domain.net hostname That is, force resolution of the fqdn to 127.0.0.1 Otherwise, what does it say in /var/log/maillog ? > -Arthur Cheers Tony -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list