[Gllug] problem with sendmail

[Walid Shaari]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 09:49, Alain Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:09:33AM +0100, Walid Shaari wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 07:47, Manjush G. Menon wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > 
> > > I am having some problem with sendmail as follows.
> > > I have been noticing the starting of sendmail at the booting
> > > time of my RHLinux7.2. It takes a long time before starting sendmail as a daemon.
> > > Why is it like that?
> > you probably have not an Interface configured yet!, I recall this
> > happening to me when I first started using Linux, and as I was using
> > DHCP, and sendmail would start before I have gotten an IP address it
> > used to hang there wondering!!!
> > 
> > All you need to do is may be give your hostname in /etc/hosts something
> > like this
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1               localhost
> > 192.168.10.1            hostname
> 
> I find with my ADSL line that sendmail (exim actually) needs to be restarted
> if the ADSL interface doesn't start properly (only really when I am buggering
> around with it). This is because otherwise the listening bind doesn't seem
> to listen on the ADSL address if that comes up later.
> 
> All points to starting sendmail late.

Exactly, now that I am awake, and had my coffee, yes its Name Resolution
related thats why the /etc/hosts used to work for me :-)

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