sendmail startup slow

Marty Landman mlandman at face2interface.com
Mon Jan 2 01:27:39 UTC 2006


At 05:50 PM 1/1/2006, Gerry Doris wrote:
>Marty Landman wrote:
>>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?
>
>This generally a DNS problem.  Check to see if host names are resolving 
>correctly.

How do I do that Gerry? My /etc/hosts file seems ok. Resolv.conf lists my 
ISP's nameservers. What can I do to pin this down?

Marty


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