Hi Cyril,
 
> Here'is mine:
> 
> I think the link is brought up by sendmail DNS lookups when cron uses it
> to send standard output of the script to the user owning the crontab.
> You can check if the /etc/service.switch used by sendmail tells it to
> perform host/addresses resolution with local files (aka /etc/hosts) first.
> Here's the content of mine:
> 
> $ cat /etc/service.switch
> hosts file

There's no such file in my /etc directory.
Is it a standard file that comes with sendmail normally?
Do I only have to create it with your suggested contents and then sendmail -
after restart - reads the file?
BTW: Is "file" in your suggestion a placeholder for /etc/hosts, e.g.?

Regards

Thomas Michalka

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