slow sendmail startup

[luca]

hello there,

I am having problems with sendmail. It rather slow when starting up. What can i do about it ?
Your help would be appreciated!
following is the processes that are spawned when started:

 5696 ?        S      0:00 /bin/sh /sbin/service sendmail start
 5699 ?        S      0:00 /bin/bash /etc/init.d/sendmail start
 5709 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/newaliases

any idea ?

cheers

[AndyGreen]

How slow? Unless the HDD is thrashing at this time, some kind of Network timeout is a possible culprit. Run tcpdump in a terminal window and start the thing up, and see what if anything is going out on the wire.

What does

/var/log/maillog

have to say?

[lmo]

Same problem here. Then I looked at an older install to see where I messed up.
I think I had /etc/hosts misconfigured.
Sendmail took 2+ minutes to start.
I made change to /etc/hosts.
The second bang line (!) is fixed.

diff -c hosts.old hosts
*** hosts.old   2007-03-18 09:12:49.000000000 -0400
--- hosts       2007-03-18 09:06:31.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! 127.0.0.1     localhost       lmo
  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  ::1   lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost
--- 1,4 ----
! 127.0.0.1     lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost
  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  ::1   lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost

Senmail starts in a fraction of a second.

[mario60]

Hi,
I have the same, or at least a similar issue.
After updtae from FC7 to FC8, /etc/hosts/ is

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mario
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 <<<<

is it ok? Do I need something more, What about those 6's?
Is there any tutorial about these matters?

thanks a lot
mario
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Originally Posted by lmo

Same problem here. Then I looked at an older install to see where I messed up.
I think I had /etc/hosts misconfigured.
Sendmail took 2+ minutes to start.
I made change to /etc/hosts.
The second bang line (!) is fixed.

diff -c hosts.old hosts
*** hosts.old   2007-03-18 09:12:49.000000000 -0400
--- hosts       2007-03-18 09:06:31.000000000 -0400
***************
*** 1,4 ****
! 127.0.0.1     localhost       lmo
  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  ::1   lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost
--- 1,4 ----
! 127.0.0.1     lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost
  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
  # that require network functionality will fail.
  ::1   lmo     localhost.localdomain   localhost

Senmail starts in a fraction of a second.

[cheerio158]

Check your /etc/sysconfig/network file too. It should have a qualified name like shown below.

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain