Re: Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

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On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 10:17 -0800, Bob Kinney wrote:
> --- John Summerfield <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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