> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Oleg Goldshmidt > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sendmail takes 7-8 minutes to start > > > > Hi, > > I noticed that two of the RH7.1 computers on our LAN get stuck for 7-8 > minutes during boot trying to start sendmail. They succeed eventually, > but it should not take all that long, IMHO. Both have unmodified (I > think) configuration from sendmail-8.11.6-1.7.1. It happens with > kernels 2.4.9-6 and 2.4.2-2.
It is more than likely a DNS timeout causing sendmail to hang for a while. Sendmail is probable doing a reverse DNS name lookup on one of the IP addresses of the host it is running on (check /etc/hosts). Check if all, if not any DNS servers are reachable during startup (/etc/resolv.conf). -- Vik _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
