Sendmail sleeping during boot.
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 22 16:17:41 UTC 2006
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.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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