F9 - sendmail won't send on startup?

Knute Johnson linux at www.knutejohnson.com
Sun Jun 22 20:54:25 UTC 2008


Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 12:48 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>>> There are a million ways around the problem, but I'd really just like to 
>>>> fix it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for trying though.
>>> ----
>>> I feel that you missed my point.
>>>
>>> If you are going to rely upon configuring sendmail on each machine on
>>> your LAN to deliver e-mail, you need to have working DNS and some
>>> knowledge on how to configure sendmail. That's what's required to fix
>>> it. You are choosing your own burdens here.
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>
>> I understand you perfectly.  However there is no DNS problem as I can 
>> read mail from the server, the browser works and I can ping.  There is 
>> some new problem with F9 that is causing this or something that works 
>> differently on F9.  This has worked fine on every version of Fedora 
>> since 1 and it works fine as soon as I restart sendmail.
> ----
> But I am running F-9 and sendmail and don't get those startup errors...
> 
> [root at lin-workstation ~]# grep 'Name server timeout' /var/log/maillog*
> [root at lin-workstation ~]# grep 'Name server timeout' /var/log/messages*
> [root at lin-workstation ~]# chkconfig --list sendmail
> sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
> 
> so it seems as though you do have some DNS problem somewhere.
> 
> And I assure you that if there was an inherent problem with mail
> delivery on Fedora-9, we'd be hearing plenty of moaning.
> 
> but since I have a server on the LAN that handles mail delivery (both on
> the LAN and to the Internet), it's a waste of time for me to configure
> each local system to deliver e-mail when all I need to do is just use my
> server for smtp connections and if necessary, simply configure a
> workstation to use my server as a smarthost.
> 
> Thus when I see you using e-mail addresses with zones (www) and errors
> resolving them, it seems to me that it's simply errors caused by your
> configuration which seems to be unnecessarily complicated and requires
> that you notch up your troubleshooting capabilities.

Removing the www doesn't solve it either.

> I recall that on Fedora 8, NetworkManager sysv init ran rather late in
> the startup series but checking it out now, it starts much earlier and
> certainly before SendMail so that shouldn't pose a problem (which is why
> I suggested putting an entry in /etc/hosts).
> 
> Craig

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Knute Johnson
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