Sendmail sleeping during boot.

[Erik P. Olsen]

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
> Sep 21 16:30:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root
> Sep 21 16:30:47 epohost sendmail[3124]: /etc/aliases: 80 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 814 bytes total
> Sep 21 16:30:47 epohost sendmail[3131]: My unqualified host name (epohost) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Sep 21 16:31:47 epohost sendmail[3131]: unable to qualify my own domain name (epohost) -- using short name
> Sep 21 16:31:47 epohost sendmail[3136]: starting daemon (8.13.7): SMTP+queueing at 01:00:00
> Sep 21 16:31:47 epohost sm-msp-queue[3144]: My unqualified host name (epohost) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Sep 21 16:32:47 epohost sm-msp-queue[3144]: unable to qualify my own domain name (epohost) -- using short name
> Sep 21 16:32:47 epohost sm-msp-queue[3149]: starting daemon (8.13.7): queueing at 01:00:00
> Sep 21 16:32:49 epohost spamd[3159]: logger: removing stderr method 
> Sep 21 16:32:51 epohost spamd[3161]: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.1.3) 
> Sep 21 16:32:51 epohost spamd[3161]: spamd: server pid: 3161 
> Sep 21 16:32:51 epohost spamd[3161]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 3230 
> Sep 21 16:32:51 epohost spamd[3161]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 3231 
> Sep 21 16:32:51 epohost spamd[3161]: prefork: child states: II 

So sendmail spends 2 minutes waiting. Whatfor? As soon as sendmail has finished 
everything is normal.

Regards,
-- 
Erik P. Olsen, Civilingeniør, MSc
Solsortvej 30, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Phone: +45 38346480, Fax: +45 38346470, Mobil: +45 40765300