Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 16 21:53:37 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:17 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote:
> --- John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>
> > Simon Slater wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Just a question to satisfy my curiosity. When booting sendmail takes
> > > a very long time to start. This happens in FC6 but even longer in F7 on
> > > a new laptop. I'm watching it now and its been 7 minutes so far. Done!
> > > Sendmail finished in 9 minutes and now sm-client ... is ... finished
> > > in ... 4 minutes. The rest boots quite quickly, less than 2 minutes for
> > > everything else. All mail is done through another box. This is not a
> > > problem, allows plenty of time to make some tea and get a slice of cake.
> > >
> >
> > If you ever get tired of the opportunity to have morning tea and a
> > natter while the computer gets started, you might get around to checking
> > that networking is starting properly, you have fully functioning DNS or
> > an alternative.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Cheers
> > John
>
> I have had that problem, too. It seems that sendmail requires a complete
> hostname (with a domain) and sort of sits on its hands for a long time
> before timing out and continuing.
>
> So in my case, I named the computer "name.localdomain", and updated the entry
> in /etc/hosts for my machine to
> 127.0.0.1name.localdomain name localhost.localdomain localhost
> where the last 3 items are aliases and thus will work for probably any
> program's needs.
As you have found out it hangs until it can the address of the machine.
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