sendmail startup slow

[Marty Landman]

I've noticed that when rebooting sendmail takes forever - well 5 minutes 
anyway.

Below are time relevant extracts from last reboot:

$ sudo more /var/log/messages

Jan  1 14:34:55 BANYAN kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 33 at 
0xd08e8000, 00:A0:CC:40:55:CF, IRQ 11.
Jan  1 14:34:55 BANYAN kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 
link partner capability of 45e1.
Jan  1 14:34:57 BANYAN xinetd[1841]: xinetd Version 2.3.10 started with 
libwrap options compiled in.
Jan  1 14:34:57 BANYAN xinetd[1841]: Started working: 1 available service
Jan  1 14:39:38 BANYAN sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:41:59 BANYAN sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:41:59 BANYAN gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:42:00 BANYAN crond: crond startup succeeded

$ sudo more /var/log/boot.log

Jan  1 14:34:46 BANYAN autofs: automount startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:34:49 BANYAN sshd:  succeeded
Jan  1 14:34:54 BANYAN xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:39:38 BANYAN sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:41:59 BANYAN sendmail: sm-client startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:41:59 BANYAN gpm: gpm startup succeeded
Jan  1 14:42:00 BANYAN crond: crond startup succeeded

How might I go about finding the problem here?


Marty Landman, Face 2 Interface Inc. 845-679-9387
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