Sendmail and sm-client are extremely slow at startup

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 26.11.2003 schrieb A.J. Bonnema um 02:51:
> Vincent wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:05:55 +0100
> > "A.J. Bonnema" <abonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Has anyone else experienced an exctreeeemely slow startup for sendmail 
> >>and sm-client?
> >>
> >>I checked the archives for this list, but couldn't find it.
> >>
> >>What could I do to find out what the problem is?
> >>
> > 
> > check your maillog in /var/log/ anything similar to this in there:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Nov 17 04:02:43 Turtle sendmail[4717]: My unqualified host name (Turtle) unknown; sleeping for retry
> > Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: unable to qualify my own domain name (Turtle) -- using short name
> > Nov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHC37RE004501: from=root, size=2273, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200311171203.hAHC37RE004501 at Turtle>, relay=root at localhostNov 17 04:03:07 Turtle sendmail[4501]: hAHHLS433: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=32273, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > make sure of a few things, check /etc/sysconfig/network it should have
> > a line like this:
> > HOSTNAME=turtle.localdomain
> > 
> > check /etc/hosts for lines like this:
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> > 127.0.0.1       turtle.localdomain      turtle
> > Note the . in the hostnames, sendmail is picky about seeing a domain (aliases ok)
> > 
> > Check /etc/hosts.allow if you have tcpwrappers on
> > sendmail : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
> > 
> > By default RH configures sendmail to only accept connections from localhost
> > so any changing of things throws it for a loop.
> > 
> > good luck.
> 
> Thank you very much. That did it. Your precise description made it very 
> clear what was wrong:
> 
> I had one entry (not 127.0.0.1) containing a name without a . (no 
> domain) which probably was the cause. Changing that to a " 
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx name.domain name" made sendmail and sm-client extremely 
> fast in startup.

Hopefully you have not deleted the localhost entry in /etc/hosts,
otherwise sendmail and some other applications will not work properly.

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

has to be there in every case


> Thanks again!
> 
> Guus.

Alexander


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