Sendmail sleeping during boot.

[Erik P. Olsen]

Les Mikesell skrev:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 15:33 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> I have noticed that boot has begun to take a long time and it is especially the 
>> start of sendmail. I find the following in the maillog file:
>>
>>> Sep 21 16:29:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: My unqualified host name (epohost) unknown; sleeping for retry
>>> Sep 21 16:30:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: unable to qualify my own domain name (epohost) -- using short name
> 
> It wants to be able to resolve its own name and reverse-resolve the IP
> addresses of the interfaces it listens on.  If you don't have working
> DNS for these, put them in your hosts file.
> 
I thought I did that:

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
192.168.1.100   EPO-xp
192.168.1.105   epowork
192.168.1.125   epohost


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