On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:12:42PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian typed:
> M. Selvakumar saw fit to inform LI that:
>
> >While new server is booting, it is stops at sendmail for a long time.
>
> inetd seems to be the problem - just check inetd.conf
>
Hmm.. ?? My sendmail setup doesn't seem to use inetd at all ?
My bet is on DNS lookup failure - At startup sendmail tries to reverse
lookup all network interfaces to find valid hostnames and if you haven't
setup your DNS reverse zones properly, this can cause a problem.
Enable the Option "DontProbeInterfaces" in sendmail.cf to avoid this lookup.
(Remove the # in front of this option). In this case you should ensure that
all your domain names/aliases are listed in your .cf file with Cw directives
(or in /etc/mail/sendmail.cw if you have the use_cw_file feature turned on).
Kala
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