According to Mario Melendez: While burning my CPU.
>
> Up until a few days ago I had been using Caldera to run my linux box. It
> worked pretty well.
>
> But I sent out for Debian and it arrived, so I decided to install it.
>
> Apart from all the minor bugs I've still got to work out, there's one
> that's got me stumped:
>
> When I ran Caldera the sendmail daemon would start up within a few
> seconds of the "Starting mail transport agent: sendmail" message, and
> would always respond promptly to commands like mailq and deliver local
> mail immediately.
>
> However the Debian sendmail takes extremely long to start up (close to a
> minute) when the "Starting mail transport agent etc etc" message comes
> up at startup. Mail delivery is not done, even to local users, and the
> mailq command does not produce output (it just sits there until I press
> Ctrl-C).
>
> Are the Debian and Caldera versions of sendmail extremely different, and
> that's why it's slower, or did I configure something wrong?
Sendmail is sendmail be it on what ever distribution, however configuration
could be different of course, you can change that to what you want/need.
What is possably happening at boottime is that there is no route to host,
or no DNS defined or both, whereby sendmail cant resolve hosts.
>
> Also, I notice that in the Debian sendmail.cf file there's no DS
> parameter (for "smart relay" hosts). I prefer to use smart relay than
> direct delivery, can I simply add a DSsmarthost.com line to sendmail.cf?
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Regards Richard.
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