Re: SENDMAIL Ages to start !!!!!

[Jon]

Reverse IP lookup no doubt, RH 6.2 had a real problem with that, holding the
system for a minute or more at boot time.

Regards,

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Maria Godinho de Matos" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 3:43 AM
Subject: Fwd: SENDMAIL Ages to start !!!!!

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> Subject: SENDMAIL Ages to start !!!!!
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 01:29:13 +0000
> From: Miguel Maria Godinho de Matos <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: [e-mail]
>
> I am having some prblems with sendmail since the second time i booted
linux.
>
> I have linux for about 2 months now and i just now understood that my send
> mail deamon takes too long to start.
>
> this is the log message that appeard when i upgraded linux red hat 7.1 to
7.2
> for the first time:
>
> ( firstboot after installing )
>
> Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1031]: alias database /etc/aliases
rebuilt
> by root
> Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1031]: /etc/aliases: 42 aliases,
longest
> 10 bytes, 432 bytes total
> Nov 18 09:48:04 localhost sendmail[1043]: starting daemon (8.11.6):
> SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
> Nov 18 09:53:11 localhost sendmail[1675]: fAI9rAX01675: from=root,
size=186,
> class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[e-mail]>,
> relay=root@localhost
> Nov 18 09:53:11 localhost sendmail[1679]: fAI9rAX01675: to=root,
ctladdr=root
> (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30186,
dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Sent
> Nov 18 10:06:18 localhost sendmail[22560]: fAIA6H722560: from=root,
size=241,
> class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<[e-mail]>,
> relay=root@localhost
> Nov 18 10:06:18 localhost sendmail[22560]: fAIA6H722560: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=loc
>
> no problems this time, send mail started smoothly and quickly!!!!!!!!
>
> Well, the first thing i did when i loged in was to configure my hostname
and
> network devices.
>
> So i changed my hostname to: AstinusGod, i added this host and it's
network
> ip to the hostname table and so on!!!
>
> since then look:
>
> send mail takes ages to start and it keeps these kinda error messages in
the
> log  files:
>
> Dec  2 00:56:04 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: My unqualified host name
> (AstinusGod) unknown; sleeping for retry
> Dec  2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: unable to qualify my own domain
> name (AstinusGod) -- using short name
> Dec  2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: fB20vCX09808: from=root,
size=230,
> class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200112020057.fB20vCX09808@AstinusGod>,
> relay=root@localhost
> Dec  2 00:57:12 AstinusGod sendmail[9808]: fB20vCX09808: to=root,
> ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
pri=30230,
> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> I don't know what to do.... to solve this problem....
>
> i figure that if i change my hostname to localhost again, and if i remove
the
> ip entries i entered... it may be solved.. but i don't want that, just
want
> sendmail to recognize them!!!!!
>
> plz somebody help!!
>
> regards, Astinus
>
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