Rainer Traut wrote:
Hi,
this is a problem which I see since a couple of fedora releases.
After fixing the /etc/hosts file sendmail starts very slow.
I usually took the easy way and deinstalled sendmail for postfix...
The sendmail init script runs newaliases and then sendmail, both tasks
start very slowly.
I did was fixing the faulty hosts file:
wrong:
127.0.0.1 zico localhost localhost.localdomain
fixed:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
172.27.0.101 zico
Vie tethereal -i lo I noticed the starting sendmail tries to lookup my
hostname 'zico' from dns (running bind locally) but fails and seems to
pause then.
I looked for any references in /etc/mail but there is no 'zico'.
So the question is, how to fix this?
Thx
Rainer
maybe check /etc/resolv.conf; should say
order hosts,bind
this way it will look at the hosts file before resorting to your local
nameserver.
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